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Re: Official Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (Smaller Devices Now Supported!)
by
makomk
on 05/06/2011, 20:49:07 UTC
I haven't managed to synthesize anything that performs decently on a Spartan 6 (it complains about a congested design that can't be routed), but ArtForz claims to have one of these running at 190MH/s.

Hmmmm. Supposedly the Spartan 6 lacks the long-distance routing fabric of the Virtex 6 chips, and both have a much higher ratio of logic to routing infrastructure than older generations. Of course, this isn't officially documented anywhere that I can find... FPGA manufacturers are annoyingly secretive.