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November 17, 2011, 03:16:54 PM |
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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, ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) the SCHs will release @ approx. 11/26. when i came back home. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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November 18, 2011, 01:09:46 AM |
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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, ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) the SCHs will release @ approx. 11/26. when i came back home. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Guess you are timing it with the BFL realease on Nov 25 then ? Nice. Competition is good between FPGA producers.
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November 18, 2011, 10:00:58 AM |
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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, ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) the SCHs will release @ approx. 11/26. when i came back home. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) 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.
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November 19, 2011, 03:11:22 PM |
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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.
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November 19, 2011, 05:09:15 PM |
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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.
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bulanula
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November 20, 2011, 05:02:11 PM |
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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 !
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November 26, 2011, 08:46:22 AM |
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![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) hi there. i'll come home in 1 day. so everything will continue after i reached home. all docs will release soon ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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November 26, 2011, 02:54:56 PM |
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Great, I'm waiting for that documentation before I'll decide to buy. I'm electronic engineer so its important factor to me.
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Under development Modular UPGRADEABLE Miner (MUM). Looking for investors. Changing one PCB with screwdriver and you have brand new miner in hand... Plug&Play, scalable from one module to thousands.
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November 27, 2011, 05:07:43 PM |
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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....
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November 27, 2011, 05:15:22 PM |
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WOW thanks for all the design information !
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November 27, 2011, 05:18:19 PM |
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WOW thanks for all the design information !
![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Is this the most complex and the only fully opensourced hardware FPGA mining borad? i need your sustain ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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November 27, 2011, 06:19:08 PM |
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Thanks ngzhang ! ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) By the way,what software do you use for PCB layout?
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November 27, 2011, 06:26:50 PM |
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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 ! ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) 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.
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November 27, 2011, 06:35:26 PM Last edit: November 27, 2011, 09:41:01 PM by Dexter770221 |
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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.
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November 27, 2011, 07:03:33 PM |
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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 !
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November 27, 2011, 08:22:27 PM |
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FPGA rig (or board) with ~ 1Gh/s is easy....the problem is the final price .... ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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November 27, 2011, 09:15:37 PM |
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Indeed.
Two Virtex 6 with 350k LE's would do the job but also crack the 1000$ frontier easily.
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November 27, 2011, 09:31:58 PM Last edit: November 27, 2011, 09:44:07 PM by rph |
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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
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November 27, 2011, 10:10:33 PM |
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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.
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November 29, 2011, 10:56:37 AM |
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1 day, 50% ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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