Re: Official Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (Spartan-6 Now Tops Performance per $!)

Quote from: kramble on November 01, 2012, 03:22:52 PM

I've been reading through sha256_transform.v, and while I've got a rough idea of what its doing, its going to take me a while to work out whether its being implimented correctly in the device

Why fuck about?
www.iscturkey.org/2010/2008/2007/pdf/sozlu/10.pdf
http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/people/philip.leong/UserFiles/File/papers/sha_fpl02.pdf
http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/special/SASEBO/SHA3-en.html (check out the Sha2 VHDL source, NOT SHA3)
http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~sha3/index.html

Normally with academic research, you research FIRST then compare hypothesis.

The main way forward for speed, is unroll the calculations and optimize the Expander, then multi-core it.

HC