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February 03, 2014, 04:39:50 AM |
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Meeting Update:
"The main take away from the last meeting are that the first boards dev-boards, will have a left column of 8 BitFury, middle column of 2 A1, and right column of 8 BitMain." - Lead EE for the Wasp & Hive Project.
This will cut down on some of our development time to get to our prototype boards that will drop soon afterwards. Again video and pictures will be released when this board is actively working and testing.
More updates later...
3 different chips on 1 board, WTF that will be awesome, I can't wait to see that.  Will be watching this thread more closely.. |
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Bicknellski
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February 03, 2014, 09:07:31 AM
Last edit: February 04, 2014, 10:09:08 AM by Bicknellski |
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Wasp
Minion is out at least until May so the Asicminer 40nm 13 gh/s chip is in if we can get them. Gridseed possibly in but we would require the proper chips specs be available and sample chips in February for an early March production run possible for anyone with any substantial Gridseed chips volume if they are still interested.
Hive
Hive is a sandwiched dual board with power on one plane and signals on the other that is married together via connectors and stanchion stabilizers to increase rigidity but not impede airflow. A redesign is currently happening as well as a careful check to make sure our Wasps mate perfect to the Hive. This is necessary since the Hive is being designed in the UK and the Wasp is being designed in the US and both EE teams are cross checking each others designs for errors or potential problems in fabrication. Further shaving of the Hive boards has allowed more airflow in the redesign but we are reaching the limits where flexing of the board could be an issue on this beta version Hive.
Firmware & Software
Progress The Bitfury emulator based on the XMEGA is ready. The controller for the Bitfury (the MCU) is also in a good state. We have just settled on a workload for it, which will be in line with current approaches taken by others (ie, local work generation on the PC). I am currently working on hooking into existing codes, so that we don't have to write our own PC program for feeding the MCU. Once we're talking we will then implement the MCU logic to drive the Bitfury emulator from the data. But, of course, things can always jump up and bite you so we hope no major issues arise.
Website
Currently waiting on a member to update the website with the content we have currently but will be augmented with videos and pictures our work so far on the Wasp & Hive as well as the Pool Information. Waiting on another members to finish the Mining Pool and start on the internal share exchange for our members. We have a bips.me as a payment gateway working now and it will be integrated into the website.
Mining Pool
Two members are finishing the BackEnd+FrontEnd Coding for the pool and it is now going through security and full testing. A few members have offered 20 Gh/s+ to the pool for testing and our soft opening. We have potential customers in the order of 50 Th/s lined up for our hard opening
PR & Marketing
We will have a meeting for PR and Marketing this Friday.
License Fee
There were extensive discussions of the licensing fee at the meeting and it looks like we will be modeling two payment possibilities for fabricators and end users based on a percentage of the $ Gh/s pricing of chips. People will have the option to mine off the licensing fee or pay a flat fee. Flat fee will be slightly lower and available in USD or BTC.
Provisioning Server
Work continues on testing of the provisioning and licensing server and it is likely we will be on schedule for use on the Development Boards coming very soon.
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Other News
Many are interested in joining the WPC and we are keen to grow our ranks but before we can even start taking on new members the current membership has decided we need to set up our LLC and finalize our franchise / membership bylaws so that all members are required to sign on to agree to those terms before being a full member. This will take a number of weeks to finish so until then no new members will be added.
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joeventura
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February 03, 2014, 06:10:50 PM |
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Congrats Bick, looks like you are all making great progress.
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erem
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February 03, 2014, 06:17:45 PM |
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Great news. Looking forward to hear about working prototypes!
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Bicknellski
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February 03, 2014, 06:21:31 PM
Last edit: February 04, 2014, 05:45:19 AM by Bicknellski |
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100 x A1 chips arrived just now in our Seattle EE's hands more than enough to build 2 complete Wasp Hive prototypes. First the Seahawks and now the chips Seattle is a great town!
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Bicknellski
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February 04, 2014, 08:49:41 AM |
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Some good news out of Seahawkville. I'm making the adjustments to allow all three types of chip to run on the same board... needs a few more controllable regulators, some different coils, and a new footprint for the A1 - probably the hardest thing to do in the list. Spent today cleaning up the schematic, making the bill of materials consistent, and ordering the remaining parts that I had overlooked or added since three weeks ago.
Planning on Footprint next, then just wiggling it into the layout, and adjusting the high-current loops for low inductance. I will finish the layout of the LEDs, MCU, CPLD, and JTAG. If I get it done before the "shop" closing time, I'll take it down to the "shop" for a milled prototype, and use that to prove out the MCU, hotplug, and power controls before I send it off to the prototype fabricator, soon hopefully.
At that point, I'll spend that time getting the bringup tests written, and testing the new OS on the emulator. When the boards get back from the fab, I'll give them a once-over, and take a few to the shop to assemble (only partially, since they can't place the real fine- line stuff we're using with their old gear). Meanwhile, I'll have the parts kit completed (last few will arrive soon, suppliers are telling me), and I'll ship them all off to the assembler for a fast build of 4 or 5 demo proto boards.
It's getting close! - Lead EE |
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February 05, 2014, 12:49:25 PM |
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I bookmarked this and will follow.
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valkir
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February 06, 2014, 05:47:14 PM |
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Wow good job dude! I will stay in touch. Want to see the prototype For sure will buy if possible. |
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pinkfloyd11
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February 07, 2014, 10:07:15 AM |
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Hello
I'm senior EE and would help you in your project.
Say me what I could do for help
Thanks
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Bicknellski
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February 07, 2014, 01:23:44 PM |
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PinkFloyd11 please send me an email with a short profile. I will see what I can do to get you in the meeting tomorrow and see what we need moving forward on the Project. We are in need of Firmware work as we are looking to add a number of features over the coming months. In terms of hardware we might have a number of new chips to work on to develop into Wasps so another EE or two might be very much what we need moving forward but we can discuss that on Saturday.
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pinkfloyd11
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February 07, 2014, 07:03:44 PM |
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Hello I have sent a PM but still not have received reply from you. My email is gpezzella@yahoo.comThanks |
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Bicknellski
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February 08, 2014, 02:54:09 AM |
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Hello I have sent a PM but still not have received reply from you. My email is gpezzella@yahoo.comThanks I sent you my email. Please contact me via email. |
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Bicknellski
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February 09, 2014, 05:51:43 AM
Last edit: February 10, 2014, 10:32:09 AM by Bicknellski |
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Wasp
Rather than being a Wasp update this will read as a product review of Cadence software... long story short !@#$%^&*( shit is a nightmare and we are so deep into building up component libraries we don't have the time or resources to simply switch out. Our EE has, yet again, had to fight tooth and nail with the latest version of Allegro(OrCad) just to get a things back to where he started as the software seems to like to revert things back even after resolving specific problems in the design. So in an effort to cut out time we dropped a row off the design to make placement of traces easier and increased the length of the board nearly 2.5 cm. This has again delayed the bring up PCB board. We are trying a number of steps to see if we can port the design out with minimal issues to another software but via another EE while the original EE continues working on the existing software. At this point we are certain after getting done with Wasp Hive for the A1 / BitFury we will move to a new software.
Hive
The Hive will have modifications continuing in an effort to support the changes in the Wasp. The design should be ready in the coming week and we are looking at the fabrication cost of this unique design and should have an estimate coming in on this soon for this Beta version of the Hive.
Firmware & Software
Further tests have moved on manually feeding blocks to the emulator and it has been successful. EE's will work on two 'flavors' of the firmware.
Website
Currently the website is being tweaked for color and logos. A share exchange system is also being started this week.
Mining Pool
Back End & Front End Coding for the pool and it is still going through security and full testing. We are working on the DGM and possibly PPNLS if we are not happy with the DGM configuration after we live mining next week.
PR & Marketing
PR and Marketing is starting to add social media sites and to contact our fabrication partners or those interested. Please PM Beastlymac if you want to get on our newsletter / mailing list of fabricators. We want to keep you in the loop as we get close to testing the Wasp. We want to make sure that fabricators can start their fab as soon as possible after we have put out working designs.
License Fee
We are still refining pricing at this time taking into account the various types of chips and their pricing structures will figure into our fee pricing.
Provisioning Server
We are nearly done on the work for the server just waiting on the Wasp completion.
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Thanks to Pinkfloyd11, Lucko and VS3 for sitting in on the meeting on Saturday. We all hope we were good hosts and you were able to get the information you needed from the meeting.
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Beastlymac (OP)
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February 09, 2014, 07:26:19 AM |
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Please pm me your email address to be included on the list. Information going out to people soon.
Thanks
p.s. i will updated everyone with our social networking accounts soon. We can also be contacted on them. Thanks
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Message me if you have any problems
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jbcheng
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February 10, 2014, 07:56:47 AM |
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Hi Bicknellski, We are a young Australian team and want to develop the miners based on Bitmine A1. Can I buy your A1 project license? My email address jb.chieng@gmail.comThanks Jacob |
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Bicknellski
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February 10, 2014, 08:03:12 AM
Last edit: February 10, 2014, 08:43:12 AM by Bicknellski |
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As soon as we have working units and they are fabricated by you or other fabricators, then you can license those units with us. Just follow what Beastly said and he will keep you updated. Please pm me your email address to be included on the list. Information going out to people soon.
Thanks
p.s. i will updated everyone with our social networking accounts soon. We can also be contacted on them. Thanks
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bigbeninlondon
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February 13, 2014, 02:47:09 PM |
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Just curious,
Will you be maintaining a list of vendors who have licensed your design so we know where to buy from?
Thanks!
Ben
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bobsag3
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February 13, 2014, 03:18:36 PM |
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Just curious,
Will you be maintaining a list of vendors who have licensed your design so we know where to buy from?
Thanks!
Ben
I believe they are, yes. |
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Bicknellski
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February 13, 2014, 04:54:53 PM |
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Just curious,
Will you be maintaining a list of vendors who have licensed your design so we know where to buy from?
Thanks!
Ben
We will do what we can on that front and let the community know who has licensed with us. Fabricators may pass licensing onto end users as well and we are prepared to offer licenses to anyone that has a Wasp and Hive in either case. |
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Bicknellski
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February 18, 2014, 10:53:53 AM |
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Wasp
With issues still related to the Allegro PCB which are continually hounding the EE he has taken the step to cut out anything that could add time to the design, as it is hard to fight with this program version, he will put together a simplified 6 chip A1 board for bring up & prototyping rather than 3 different or 2 different chips on a single bring up board. This will not affect the Hive and other projects moving forward. We will see something from the fabricator this week hopefully and a full prototype to follow. Although these delays are really a software issue the members are keen on moving forward and we will do what we can to move from Cadence / Allegro PCB to something that isn't prone to kill weeks / months in fighting with the CAD.
More updates coming soon...
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