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July 08, 2013, 07:27:56 AM |
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Right now, I'm waiting for my PCBs for the Avalon miner. In the meantime, I thought I can try to make a board for BFL ASICs, too. So, I sat down and played around with my CAD software. Delivery not certain. Better to work on a BitFury design as that is more in line with Avalon chips right? Same footprint.
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aauer1 (OP)
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July 08, 2013, 07:32:35 AM |
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Right now, I'm waiting for my PCBs for the Avalon miner. In the meantime, I thought I can try to make a board for BFL ASICs, too. So, I sat down and played around with my CAD software. Delivery not certain. Better to work on a BitFury design as that is more in line with Avalon chips right? Same footprint. Yep, you're right. Bitfury has the same footprint as Avalon chips. And bitfury chips have higher throughput with lower power consumption than the BFL chips. With Bitfury it could be possible to make an USB powered miner with more then a 1GHs/s (the specs are specifying a hashrate of 5GHs/s with only 2.5W power consumption).
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Bicknellski
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July 08, 2013, 12:14:13 PM |
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Right now, I'm waiting for my PCBs for the Avalon miner. In the meantime, I thought I can try to make a board for BFL ASICs, too. So, I sat down and played around with my CAD software. Delivery not certain. Better to work on a BitFury design as that is more in line with Avalon chips right? Same footprint. Yep, you're right. Bitfury has the same footprint as Avalon chips. And bitfury chips have higher throughput with lower power consumption than the BFL chips. With Bitfury it could be possible to make an USB powered miner with more then a 1GHs/s (the specs are specifying a hashrate of 5GHs/s with only 2.5W power consumption). That be good... I don't think there are any BitFury USB designs right?
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July 08, 2013, 12:17:33 PM |
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So final will make bfl labs ?board
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Bicknellski
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July 08, 2013, 01:22:14 PM |
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Did you still need Avalon chips?
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July 08, 2013, 01:23:29 PM |
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Did you still need Avalon chips?
I got two Avalon chips from SebastianJu. At the moment I'm happy with them.
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July 08, 2013, 02:02:37 PM |
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Right now, I'm waiting for my PCBs for the Avalon miner. In the meantime, I thought I can try to make a board for BFL ASICs, too. So, I sat down and played around with my CAD software. Delivery not certain. Better to work on a BitFury design as that is more in line with Avalon chips right? Same footprint. Yep, you're right. Bitfury has the same footprint as Avalon chips. And bitfury chips have higher throughput with lower power consumption than the BFL chips. With Bitfury it could be possible to make an USB powered miner with more then a 1GHs/s (the specs are specifying a hashrate of 5GHs/s with only 2.5W power consumption). That be good... I don't think there are any BitFury USB designs right? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228677.msg2568673#msg2568673http://imgur.com/QZYoGDQ - this the board that got 2.7 GH/s I think somewhere he posted the design, unsure. You need to mine that thread for info. if its not usb, then i think its easy to adapt to usb.
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July 12, 2013, 09:16:44 AM |
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Got my PCBs for my Avalon USB miner! Let's see if it is working! ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi1077.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw480%2FAndreas_Auer%2FASIC%2520miner%2FDSC02594.jpg&t=665&c=r2E_X6RhdBnSkQ)
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July 12, 2013, 08:27:21 PM |
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And the assembled board: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi1077.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw480%2FAndreas_Auer%2FASIC%2520miner%2FDSC02595.jpg&t=665&c=nN51LY_MwjQe8w)
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turtle83
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July 12, 2013, 08:35:02 PM |
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That was fast... hashing already? I guess with such a large surface area.. you can passive cool it even with overclock.
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July 12, 2013, 08:37:20 PM |
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That was fast... hashing already? I guess with such a large surface area.. you can passive cool it even with overclock. No it is not hashing right now. I have to make the firmware for the microcontroller. Maybe I get it hashing this weekend (depends on the weather ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) ).
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July 13, 2013, 12:33:20 AM |
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+1 for the Bitfury chip and please, can we just stay away from BFL? Why do we keep plugging them after all that has happened?? Right now, I'm waiting for my PCBs for the Avalon miner. In the meantime, I thought I can try to make a board for BFL ASICs, too. So, I sat down and played around with my CAD software. Delivery not certain. Better to work on a BitFury design as that is more in line with Avalon chips right? Same footprint.
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ct1aic
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July 13, 2013, 10:04:09 AM |
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And the assembled board: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi1077.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw480%2FAndreas_Auer%2FASIC%2520miner%2FDSC02595.jpg&t=665&c=nN51LY_MwjQe8w) Wow! I like it more than the USB Block Erupter... and what about mining results?
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July 14, 2013, 03:26:25 PM |
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Just got the board to hash! Now the proof that the board is mining: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi1077.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw480%2FAndreas_Auer%2Fbfgminer.png&t=665&c=ZVJZx255-iUL-w)
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July 14, 2013, 03:31:15 PM |
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nice man! so what were the initial costs for that prototype? can you give us any estimations?
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July 14, 2013, 03:31:42 PM |
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Just got the board to hash! Now the proof that the board is mining: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi1077.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw480%2FAndreas_Auer%2Fbfgminer.png&t=665&c=ZVJZx255-iUL-w) Nice work. Looks good! Are you going to try and overclock?
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July 14, 2013, 03:43:07 PM |
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Outstanding. Would be real interested inBFL application. Have chips on order.
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July 14, 2013, 03:54:06 PM |
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Come on friend make bfl chips board .it is not necessary USB power.can you make it without USB power I think better is 4 chips per board ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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July 14, 2013, 05:13:21 PM |
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Lower hash rate than the USB Block Erupter, but more beautiful.
Let's wait for some overclock and I hope aauer1 will sell some of those Gizmos, as I would love to buy one.
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July 14, 2013, 05:22:20 PM |
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Good ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) +1 Interesting. Nice to see people trying innovative ideas.
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