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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

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

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

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

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

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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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

hi there.

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

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

i need your sustain Cheesy
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November 27, 2011, 06:19:08 PM
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Thanks ngzhang !  Wink

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

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
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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
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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
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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..]

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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
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