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Re: Official Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (Spartan-6 Now Tops Performance per $!)
by
makomk
on 26/12/2012, 00:29:15 UTC
Hello,

I've managed to get access to a Spartan6 150 FPGA board and Xilinx toolset at work at lunch/evenings to play with.  The idea is to learn VHDL, which is going OK.  I'd really like to have a play with Bitcoin too.

I hope there is someone here that can help me with regards to TheSeven's Xilinx VHDL implementation.  If not, do you know where can I get help?

I'm afraid getting miners running on Spartan-6 is kind of hairy and really requires HDL tailored specifically to that chip. TheSeven's Xilinx VHDL implementation isn't going to be, and ztex's Spartan-6 mining core which everyone uses is in Verilog rather than VHDL.