FPGA development board "Icarus" - DisContinued/ important announcement

[ngzhang]

I'm also considering to buy one. But have few doubts. You claim that first batch buyers will get xilinx programming cable (clone I supose) and ISE 13.2 right?

What about upgrading ISE, it will be possible in future? When A7 arrives I wanted to experiment with them and fully licensed ISE will be necessary. For now ISE 13.3 supports XC7A8 & 15 but it requires licence (what kind I don't know). Can you check that is possible to upgrade and synthesize something for Atrixes?

Do you release schematics for board? I would like to look at it, before decide to buy.

do not ask too much about the ISE software please, 

the SCHs will release @ approx. 11/26. when i came back home.

[bulanula]

I'm also considering to buy one. But have few doubts. You claim that first batch buyers will get xilinx programming cable (clone I supose) and ISE 13.2 right?

What about upgrading ISE, it will be possible in future? When A7 arrives I wanted to experiment with them and fully licensed ISE will be necessary. For now ISE 13.3 supports XC7A8 & 15 but it requires licence (what kind I don't know). Can you check that is possible to upgrade and synthesize something for Atrixes?

Do you release schematics for board? I would like to look at it, before decide to buy.

do not ask too much about the ISE software please, 

the SCHs will release @ approx. 11/26. when i came back home.

Guess you are timing it with the BFL realease on Nov 25 then ? Nice. Competition is good between FPGA producers.

[ngzhang]

I'm also considering to buy one. But have few doubts. You claim that first batch buyers will get xilinx programming cable (clone I supose) and ISE 13.2 right?

What about upgrading ISE, it will be possible in future? When A7 arrives I wanted to experiment with them and fully licensed ISE will be necessary. For now ISE 13.3 supports XC7A8 & 15 but it requires licence (what kind I don't know). Can you check that is possible to upgrade and synthesize something for Atrixes?

Do you release schematics for board? I would like to look at it, before decide to buy.

do not ask too much about the ISE software please, 

the SCHs will release @ approx. 11/26. when i came back home.

Guess you are timing it with the BFL realease on Nov 25 then ? Nice. Competition is good between FPGA producers.

sorry, i do think BFL are scamers. so i never regard BFL as competitors.

[ngzhang]

I hear that! I am interested in your product and watching this thread!

Will this work out of the box on a windows computer? Thanks

yeah, admitting that Icarus is designed for developers and hardcore miners, but it is configed as a open-box-can-use product. only need install the USB-UART driver and a TCL environment.

[ngzhang]

Very cool and I am very interested. You said before you will be sending out the specs/design soon so we can check this out before we buy? Will you be able to do discount volume? Will you ship internationally?

Thank you!

all docs will announce @ 11/26.
first batch is only 10 of them, so at present there is no discount volume.
shipment is internationally.

[bulanula]

Looking forward to 25 and 26 November.

25 = BFL magical unicorn = fake
26 = Icarus real PCB = real

Are there any more dense / powerful models in the pipeline ? Thanks !

[ngzhang]

 

hi there.

i'll come home in 1 day. so everything will continue after i reached home. all docs will release soon

[Dexter770221]

Great, I'm waiting for that documentation before I'll decide to buy. I'm electronic engineer so its important factor to me.

[ngzhang]

all pcb design files released.

380M mining code is under test. this code is using MR. ZTEX's "sha256.v"

work queue implemented, real speed 20% increased.

pre-order will start soon....

[bulanula]

WOW thanks for all the design information !

[ngzhang]

WOW thanks for all the design information !

 

Is this the most complex and the only fully opensourced hardware FPGA mining borad?

i need your sustain

[ursa]

Thanks ngzhang !  

By the way,what software do you use for PCB layout?

[O_Shovah]

I m happy to hear your making progress in finalising towards the first batch.
Waiting for the chance to expand my fpga mining equip.

Thanks ngzhang ! 

By the way,what software do you use for PCB layout?

The files he published seem to have been created by "Altium Designer".
A really good professional piece of software. 

[Dexter770221]

Folder name is AD10 so best guess is Altium Designer 10. CLOCK&GPIO.SchDoc seems to be broken, only 11kB and its empty. Also, there's no such page in PDF.

[bulanula]

So, ATM is this the most powerful FPGA you can get for BTC mining ( in terms of getting the most hashes/s out of all the FPGA devices out there ) ?

Do you think BFL Labs can be a real product ?

Can you compete with them and do a similar design that gets like 1 GH/s ?

Thanks !

[ursa]

FPGA rig (or board) with ~ 1Gh/s is easy....the problem is the final price ....

[O_Shovah]

Indeed.

Two Virtex 6 with 350k LE's would do the job but also crack the 1000$ frontier easily.

 

[rph]

Two Virtex 6 with 350k LE's would do the job but also crack the 1000$ frontier easily.

Getting 500MH/s out of a mid-range V6 is not so simple. The mapper will freeze for 3+ days
with no errors/diagnostics about how to adjust the design...

[still burned out by 6s150..]

-rph

[phorensic]

Looked at the schematics for the PCB.  From what little I know about circuit design and building (I come from a background of designing/building amplifiers) it looks very nice.  Especially the power supply section.

[ngzhang]

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