FPGA development board "Icarus" - DisContinued/ important announcement

[Glasswalker]

I can report I've got 6GHash of icarus boards now mining against P2Pool happily with low stale rate. (can be seen live at www.btcsyn.com)

I'm using MPBM (testing branch) to control them.

[Turbor]

It is working but not too stable for me with win7. I had 2 BSOD (bluescreen of death) in a row. I had to switch back to MPBM.

I'm in win7 for now and had 2 bsod, one with cgminer 2.3.3 and ozcoin(bad pool header), default miner.py does not even run @ozcoin

and on some random I forgot the bsod message

Never tried the stock miner. Try MPBM. Works very well with ozcoin.

[ngzhang]

batch 4 reduced power consuming to about <19W at full load with fan (boards input).  
i tried some hi-end MOSFETs.  

details:

IDLE:  3.1W(with out fan) / 4.1W (with fan)
FULL LOAD: 17.2W(with out fan) / 18.2W (with fan)

all boards input.

[rudrigorc2]

batch 4 reduced power consuming to about <19W at full load with fan (boards input).  
i tried some hi-end MOSFETs.  

details:

IDLE:  3.1W(with out fan) / 4.1W (with fan)
FULL LOAD: 17.2W(with out fan) / 18.2W (with fan)

all boards input.

pretty neat!

[allinvain]

Nice job ngzhang. Those who got in on batch 4 are lucky. Hey I'm wondering though when you're going to release details regarding your next project. Are you moving towards a quad FPGA setup?

[tgmarks]

Nice job ngzhang. Those who got in on batch 4 are lucky. Hey I'm wondering though when you're going to release details regarding your next project. Are you moving towards a quad FPGA setup?

Yeah, what the status of lancelot???

[Cablez]

Its not May yet.    I for one can't wait.

[drlatino999]

Its not May yet.    I for one can't wait.

Seconded!

[wndrbr3d]

It's May. 

[TheSeven]

Don't you know that releasing something in May generally means releasing it on the 31th of May earliest?

[TheHarbinger]

Soon: Copyright 2004-2012 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. "Soon" does not imply any particular date, time, decade, century, or millennia in the past, present, and certainly not the future. "Soon" shall make no contract or warranty between Blizzard Entertainment and the end user. "Soon" will arrive some day, Blizzard does guarantee that "soon" will be here before the end of time. Maybe. Do not make plans based on "soon" as Blizzard will not be liable for any misuse, use, or even casual glancing at "soon."

[bulanula]

I too am waiting for Lancelot and also matthewh3's "mystery" board that he has not revealed for ages now.

[tgmarks]

Soon: Copyright 2004-2012 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. "Soon" does not imply any particular date, time, decade, century, or millennia in the past, present, and certainly not the future. "Soon" shall make no contract or warranty between Blizzard Entertainment and the end user. "Soon" will arrive some day, Blizzard does guarantee that "soon" will be here before the end of time. Maybe. Do not make plans based on "soon" as Blizzard will not be liable for any misuse, use, or even casual glancing at "soon."

This quote is awesome, i love it.

[antirack]

It's the so-called Golden Week in China, a 7 day national holiday. ngzhang is probably chilling with his family right now.

[ngzhang]

i come to tell everyone i'm still alive. 

[ngzhang]

i come to tell everyone i'm still alive. 

good

Any update on the new product?

will post a new thread to public the updates this week. 

[friedcat]

It's the so-called Golden Week in China, a 7 day national holiday. ngzhang is probably chilling with his family right now.

It had been already shortened to 3 days from 2008. But the holiday of early October still lasts for 7 days.

[tgmarks]

i come to tell everyone i'm still alive. 

good

Any update on the new product?

will post a new thread to public the updates this week. 

I am anxious to see it. Please post a link to it in here so we can all see when its up.

[friedcat]

i come to tell everyone i'm still alive. 

good

Any update on the new product?

will post a new thread to public the updates this week. 

I am anxious to see it. Please post a link to it in here so we can all see when its up.

Anxious to see it too. I'm expecting the MH/$ of BFL/GPU and the MH/J of Icarus/ztex.

[TheSeven]

This doesn't seem too far-fetched actually. I heard some rumors about it being a dual Spartan6-LX150 board, bitstream-compatible with Icarus, running 250-300MH/s per FPGA. Which would actually be great news for all current Icarus owners...