First running Avalon clone (teaser!)

[mrb]

Just posting a teaser for now. This is a functioning Avalon clone populated with a single hash unit with a single ASIC, mining for 6+ hours (note the 1388 accepted diff-1 shares). A public announcement, with many more details about who we are and what we make, will be made soon. I think the Bitcoin community will be quite pleased

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[marra]

kudos

[rammy2k2]

WOW !

[Boelens]

Wow. 1388 shares accepted in 6+ hours? That's a lot isn't it?

[mrb]

Wow. 1388 shares accepted in 6+ hours? That's a lot isn't it?

Well, no. That's equivalent to 275 Mh/s, because there is a single, lonely, puny ASIC in our prototype. A fully populated Avalon normally has 240 to 320 ASICs.

[josiasrdz]

How do I give you my money?...serious question

[one4many]

Congrats!!! 

[puffmais]

nice work 

[Bitcoinorama]

Ok, so you received that chip, what less than a week ago?...and you're already neck, and neck with Butterfly labs!!

[dtmcnamara]

in for a few units!

[farproc]

Good. Where are you?

[pmq]

Marking the thread, and also interested in a few units when available.

[erschiessen]

in for a few units!

This cracks me up every time.
:-)

Bravo Zulu, mrb

[pitan]

Marked for updates! 

[papamoi]

in for a few units!

This cracks me up every time.
:-)

Bravo Zulu, mrb

loolz

[Monetizer]

Looks good

[btceic]

watching!

[anddy78]

Ok, I want 12 boards! What's the price for assembled board? I'll provide the chips. 

[TheSwede75]

Ok, I want 12 boards! What's the price for assembled board? I'll provide the chips. 

[johnyj]

Nice work!

[andrewsg]

respect!

[axilla]

Sign me up

[silverserpent]

impressive. pricing (including chips)? modules too?

[Xialla]

wow great.)

[af_newbie]

Just posting a teaser for now. This is a functioning Avalon clone populated with a single hash unit with a single ASIC, mining for 6+ hours (note the 1388 accepted diff-1 shares). A public announcement, with many more details about who we are and what we make, will be made soon. I think the Bitcoin community will be quite pleased

Is that hacked up cgminer running or you wrote your own thing?  
How did you get that chip soldered to the board?  

Congrats.  

[marto74]

watching

[sprint347]

Very interesting...

[glendall]

Rad

ASICs for the masses, just on the horizon a few months away.

[davecoin]

Itsn't that the bitaxe board?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=215659.msg2319787#msg2319787

[one4many]

Itsn't that the bitaxe board?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=215659.msg2319787#msg2319787

Nope ... both are a CLONE of the Avalon Board 

[davecoin]

Itsn't that the bitaxe board?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=215659.msg2319787#msg2319787

Nope ... both are a CLONE of the Avalon Board 

true, true...

[kcanup]

nice work!!  Waiting for announcement. I think im finally getting one soon

[makngeerwork]

Wow, will you look at that, nice.

[AdamKD]

Nice

You've also modified the controller without the fuse! 

[Sophokles]

Damn! Nice! Watching...

[CoinHoarder]

Is that the first rack mounted ASIC prototype I see?

[newmars]

nice work
keep watching

[jeroenn13]

Perfect, great work!

Will be interested if you sell!

[CanaryInTheMine]

Bam!!! that's how you do it!! great job! 

[mrb]

To answer some questions:
- We are located in southern California.
- We will not take any money until the devices are all tested and ready-to-ship.
- We will likely sell via an auction. No price in mind for now.
- The chip and all the components have been soldered in a reflow oven.
- The picture shows bfgminer on the laptop (latest git version + some bugfixes from myself).

[CanaryInTheMine]

To answer some questions:
- We are located in southern California.
- We will not take any money until the devices are all tested and ready-to-ship.
- We will likely sell via an auction. No price in mind for now.
- The chip and all the components have been soldered in a reflow oven.
- The picture shows bfgminer on the laptop (latest git version + some bugfixes from myself).

Can I visit? please?

[ScaryHash]

Very nice !

[turtle83]

fap fap fap

[User705]

To answer some questions:
- We are located in southern California.
- We will not take any money until the devices are all tested and ready-to-ship.
- We will likely sell via an auction. No price in mind for now.
- The chip and all the components have been soldered in a reflow oven.
- The picture shows bfgminer on the laptop (latest git version + some bugfixes from myself).

Can I visit? please?

I 2nd that thought.

[Amph]

To answer some questions:
- We are located in southern California.
- We will not take any money until the devices are all tested and ready-to-ship.
- We will likely sell via an auction. No price in mind for now.
- The chip and all the components have been soldered in a reflow oven.
- The picture shows bfgminer on the laptop (latest git version + some bugfixes from myself).

oh good, at least this isn't a shitty pre-order
interested for sure

[k9quaint]

Well done Mrb.
Please arrange to take credit cards:

[trigeek]

Any plans to offer services for people who already have chips?

[innovation]

Great work.
So far, it is the fastest announcement of success in cloning of avalon miner.

[Pheal]

Nice stuff, but the real question is: Does it blend?

[BitSyncom]

good work mrb,

this is what we wanted to see in the beginning.

hint hint: the chip has a much higher clock cap.  

[anddy78]

Any plans to offer services for people who already have chips?

This

[Rampion]

To answer some questions:
- We are located in southern California.
- We will not take any money until the devices are all tested and ready-to-ship.
- We will likely sell via an auction. No price in mind for now.
- The chip and all the components have been soldered in a reflow oven.
- The picture shows bfgminer on the laptop (latest git version + some bugfixes from myself).

Excellent job. This is a needed breath of fresh air.

And... THAT WAS FAST. Kudos!

[dxtwo]

Where in Socal are you

[skoolbytes]

Where in Socal are you

my guess would be somewhere in Orange County or Los Angeles.

[PuertoLibre]

good work mrb,

this is what we wanted to see in the beginning.

hint hint: the chip has a much higher clock cap.  

Is this due to advances at the fab?

Does it run any cooler?

[zedicus]

To answer some questions:
- We are located in southern California.
- We will not take any money until the devices are all tested and ready-to-ship.
- We will likely sell via an auction. No price in mind for now.
- The chip and all the components have been soldered in a reflow oven.
- The picture shows bfgminer on the laptop (latest git version + some bugfixes from myself).

Sounds Outstanding! Except the auction part.. but, good job!!  


Im mean dam!! Thats what im talking about!!  

+1 USA (West Coast)
+1 No pre order
+1 Reflow + Tested

warranty? Payment Type?    

#3 with Fries, large Drink??      


Im already giving you a hard time!..haha   Good Luck !  

[goxed]

Great! kudos

[dan99]

interesting

[Tornate]

Have you cloned the chip?

[dwdoc]

No. This is an avalon chip in a cloned device.  First one we've seen a picture of. Probably a sample chip (or chip pirated from another device?), but still pretty cool...

[ranlo]

Just posting a teaser for now. This is a functioning Avalon clone populated with a single hash unit with a single ASIC, mining for 6+ hours (note the 1388 accepted diff-1 shares). A public announcement, with many more details about who we are and what we make, will be made soon. I think the Bitcoin community will be quite pleased

This is amazing and I look forward to hearing more about this! I'm curious though: do you guys have an ETA on how long it should take before getting ASIC's rolled out?

[eroxors]

Very nice! Interested in more details!

[mrb]

- Payment types: we will be open to most options.
- Yes we are in Orange County / LA.
- I will not give any ETA. We prefer to surprise the community once products are ready to ship.

good work mrb,
this is what we wanted to see in the beginning.

Well, I will transmit the thanks to my friends and partners who work on this project with me.

[ranlo]

- Payment types: we will be open to most options.
- Yes we are in Orange County / LA.
- I will not give any ETA. We prefer to surprise the community once products are ready to ship.

good work mrb,
this is what we wanted to see in the beginning.

Well, I will transmit the thanks to my friends and partners who work on this project with me.

Looks great so far. I hope this is all done sooner rather than later, :p.

[adi]

congrats, want

[jesse11]

Kudos! YEAH! 

[tosku]

- We will likely sell via an auction. No price in mind for now.

That makes a lot of sense, business-wise. Especially knowing that a lot of people have tended to overpay for mining hardware in the past. I can also understand why some people don't like it at all, because the price will probably go higher than what they are ready to pay.

Now, what you need to do is to figure out in which pace you should put your products up for sale, once they are ready.

[td204]

Very interested, watching this one.

[flyonwall]

Wow. Congratulations! You beat me to it, and I am green with envy. I still don't have my sample chips (a good excuse). A partner has received his samples, but now I have to send him the only Control Unit we have.

Question: Does your Spartan chip load the bitstream from the Flash chip during init, and it should work? In my case, what happens after loading from Flash is that the Spartan halts. It seems there are certain parts to the bitstream missing. If I program the Spartan chip directly using JTAG, then it works.

[polrpaul]

Where can I get in on this?

[aTg]

Congratulations, it looks great, going to try to overclocking?

[kaerf]

good work mrb,

this is what we wanted to see in the beginning.

hint hint: the chip has a much higher clock cap.  

Is this due to advances at the fab?

Does it run any cooler?

at bitcoin2013, yifu stated they had a 340 mhz firmware but were holding it back.

[GodHatesFigs]

Yes!

[hdcafe]

Congratulations!

[Sophokles]

good work mrb,

this is what we wanted to see in the beginning.

hint hint: the chip has a much higher clock cap.  

Is this due to advances at the fab?


Does it run any cooler?

at bitcoin2013, yifu stated they had a 340 mhz firmware but were holding it back.

Only 20% overclock? Friedcat can do 30 with the Eruptor...

[AdamKD]

good work mrb,

this is what we wanted to see in the beginning.

hint hint: the chip has a much higher clock cap.  

Is this due to advances at the fab?


Does it run any cooler?

at bitcoin2013, yifu stated they had a 340 mhz firmware but were holding it back.

Only 20% overclock? Friedcat can do 30 with the Eruptor...

.... lol ...

[Bitweasil]

I've known mrb for quite a while, done some very large transactions with him in the past, and he's as legit as they come.  This should be good.

[Big Time Coin]

Can you price an assembly service for those of us with chip orders incoming?

[mrb]

We are absolutely interested in doing assembly for those who have Avalon chips. But we work with minimum quantities of 10 thousand chips per customer. If you are interested, email me at m.bevand at gmail.com

[crashoveride54902]

interested but i doubt i'll be able to afford one

+1 on catching upto BFL so fast lmao

[titomane]

Nice job.

[aeronautical]

We are absolutely interested in doing assembly for those who have Avalon chips. But we work with minimum quantities of 10 thousand chips per customer. If you are interested, email me at m.bevand at gmail.com

Are you going to offer a kit assuming people can mount there own ASICS and heat sinks?

[mrb]

Sorry, no kit.

PS: I read your other thread; if you want bare chips, we can sell you some. Email me at m.bevand at gmail.com. We have a few dozens available today.

[aeronautical]

Sorry, no kit.

PS: I read your other thread; if you want bare chips, we can sell you some. Email me at m.bevand at gmail.com. We have a few dozens available today.

Ok thanks. I always thought this is how other DIY's would have gone using the Avalon reference design first.
I think it will be interesting to see how others manage cutting there own new designs and coding the control from scratch.

[MJGrae]

I just want to follow the hell out of this. Can't wait for people to start posting their DIY ASIC rig stories.

[bystander]

I just want to follow the hell out of this. Can't wait for people to start posting their DIY ASIC rig stories.

+1

When Yifu talked about the possibilities with DIY, I can finally see how well this could turn out.  He said he just wanted to get away from customer service aspect of things and go back to do what he enjoyed most which was to work on chips. 

[emanymton]

We are absolutely interested in doing assembly for those who have Avalon chips. But we work with minimum quantities of 10 thousand chips per customer. If you are interested, email me at m.bevand at gmail.com

Hey I emailed about a week ago and still no response.
Would like to see what you can offer as I'm still considering the avalon clone as an option over the klondike.

[mrb]

We are absolutely interested in doing assembly for those who have Avalon chips. But we work with minimum quantities of 10 thousand chips per customer. If you are interested, email me at m.bevand at gmail.com

Hey I emailed about a week ago and still no response.
Would like to see what you can offer as I'm still considering the avalon clone as an option over the klondike.

I know, sorry. I just replied to a ton of those requests 1h ago. Check your mail.

[emanymton]

We are absolutely interested in doing assembly for those who have Avalon chips. But we work with minimum quantities of 10 thousand chips per customer. If you are interested, email me at m.bevand at gmail.com

Hey I emailed about a week ago and still no response.
Would like to see what you can offer as I'm still considering the avalon clone as an option over the klondike.

I know, sorry. I just replied to a ton of those requests 1h ago. Check your mail.

Thanks for that mate, sorry to bug you.

No way I can afford it though, looks like I probably will be sticking with the klondike.

Good luck and all the best

[liu327]

Nice job.

[driksson]

I think someone just got a delivery of chips!
http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1NkkkghQHFNs8H1hAmKDM9fJo4mBkoHeej
http://thinairventures.com/

[mrb]

driksson is right

See our announcement at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303376.0

[driksson]

driksson is right

See our announcement at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303376.0

Well done. And congratulations on delivery.
Impressive work on separating the heat sinks. smart. looks good.
Also good work on the design on the boxes.
But why in the world use standard pc PSU? did you check the specs that i think asicminer is using? these psus are dirt cheap:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-403781-001-PROLIANT-DL380-G5-ML350-G5-ML370-G5-1000W-PSU-POWER-SUPPLY-/300976711130?pt=UK_Computing_PowerSupplies_EH&hash=item46139c25da

maybe i missed something.. and please educate me.

[mrb]

Agreed, industrial PSUs like this one cost less, have a neater form factor, fewer or no cables, etc.

For us, we tried to deviate as little as possible from Avalon's reference design, in order to reduce extra work and risk of delays, in case errors would have been made in redesigning even easy parts of the hardware like the power supply. Remember that, had the Avalon chips shipped on time, the timeline would have been very very short for vendors like us to ship devices ASAP.

[mrb]

Yes. You can provide +12V DC, +5V DC, and +3.3V DC to the Avalon's power distribution unit, if you have some source for these voltages.

[Professor James Moriarty]

 I once had a teaser , tough she looked nothing like an avalon ... guess she was a different type of teaser than this.

[zerocode20]

How much are you selling the Avalon chips for each? What about 100? Please PM me your quote. Thanks