Hello everyone.
So, I'm a student and RTL designer (FPGA stuff). I've been learning about bitcoin recently, mining it, and developing my own BTC IP core for FPGAs, something with a dedicated controller.
Overall the unit is faster than any current FPGA BTC rig, and it's modular so it can be applied to the DE0 Nano all the way up to Stratix cores.
It uses (optionally) a microcontroller to manage getwork and queueing while the FPGA focuses on hashing. I have my FPGA (stratix iv) running 3.6GH/s with optimized fpgaminer code, and am currently writing this original core:
http://www.nonverba.org/nanominer.
Specs are up there, as well as some project information.
The core will be donationware, which is good news for y'all, however I need money to justify putting as much time in as is needed, so if you're interested in <1.15 $/MH/s on a cheap FPGA (clusterable for higher hashrates...), and far less on a high end FPGA, let me know!
I'm asking a $10
(or 3 BTC) donation for lifetime licensing to the core (it will be something I maintain, optimize, update with the new silicon every little while).
This entitles you to the source code, the binaries, and 1-on-1 support (as much as I can give it). The timeframe totally depends on how much I can get donated, so please be generous!
I'm not doing this alone. Azelphur [he's on this forum] runs a pool server and can verify the 3.6GH/s I'm getting out of my stratix.
That URL again is:
http://www.nonverba.org/nanominerI figured this would be an okay way to show proof-of-understanding; once i'm approved I'll move this to it's own thread. Thanks all!
Glendon
