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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Quad XC6SLX150 Board - Initial Price £400/$640/520€
by
steveme
on 13/09/2012, 22:55:38 UTC
Are the dipswitch settings correct on the bitstream upgrade section? 'sw6 dip2 off' is contrary to this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94317.msg1073047#msg1073047 which shows 'sw6 dip1 off'

It looks correct as per the settings here for the 1.5 controller:

http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/cairnsmore/cairnsmore1_support_materials.html

'3' (a.k.a SW1-3) is programming enabled, '6'  (a.k.a SW6-2) is SPI programming enabled

I'm referring to the section for upgrading the bitstream though, not updating the controller, is the SPI switch still relevant at this point in the procedure?
And is SW6-1 baud rate? because I'm getting better results with that set to 'off' or 115200 for mining.

The guide is excellent btw Smiley



Yes, you're right. I got those transposed somehow.

I've corrected them to leave SW6-1 off (115200 baud) all the time (there's no reason to change it when flashing)
For controller programming, setting SW1-3 & SW6-2 off is only necessary when reflashing the controller post 1.3 so that's a good catch-all
I've corrected the FPGA programming settings as per Lethos's diagram


Well spotted, cheers for that Smiley - I'm not in a position to do a full dummy run of this as I've got a single board happily hashing away and don't want to interrupt it....