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Board Mining
Re: Re-purposing of FPGA boards made for mining
by
sturle
on 22/10/2012, 20:35:10 UTC
If it's a FPGA, you should be able to reprogram it to perform whatever algorithms you want, provided you have the know-how, or know someone with the know-how that likes money.

The FPGA is one thing, how it is wired on the board is important as well.  E.g. HDMI decryption would need high speed I/O in both directions.  Up to 10.2 Gbit/s video + 36.86 Mbit/s audio.  Which of the mining boards can do that?  The application is very different from Bitcoin mining, where you don't need high speed I/O at all.  300 bit/s would be plenty.

WPA2 needs a little more I/O than Bitcoin mining.  Enough that I wonder if some boards may hit a bottleneck without adding some extra logic to the FPGA, but what do I know.  There are many applications with I/O needs in between.  E.g. filtering in a SDR.