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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com
by
Mattzees
on 06/12/2015, 01:47:29 UTC

...I seen a couple posts about the jup and nep having similar physical boards but the titan is a whole other ball game. It has a cyclone microcontroller on it, which i'm in the process of reverse engineering but it's a new one and it's not as simple as the cyclone III. I can see why KnC decided to go with it for the controller board. If I can pull out some compilable binaries from from the chip than I should be able to duplicate the whole controller like I did with the bridge.


Why does the controller need to be duplicated physically at all?  It should be doable in software.  At that point, it's just a matter of hardware bridging to serial cables, which can be bought off-the-shelf.  

I'd love to be able to control my cubes via ethernet or USB, and eliminate the controller entirely.

Edit:  Let me also say I seriously doubt that KNC runs their cubes on same little turd controllers they gave us to use.  I would imagine that KNC uses some other form of cube control in their data center.  We should be able to replicate that somehow.