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Board Hardware
Re: Where are the 28nm FPGAs?
by
makomk
on 15/04/2013, 22:49:49 UTC
I think Artix-7 would be the best one/most cost efficient to mine BTC on, Virtex is a bit of overkill, and a lot more expensive.

Zynq would probably be amazing as well though (I think)
It seems to be a lot harder to get bitcoin miners to place and route successfully on Artix-7 than on Kintex-7.

I just updated the repo with a DSP48E1 design, for Kintex 7.  400MH/s using 80% of the DSPs, and ~25% of random logic.  I don't have an Artix-7 to port to, but I think they also have DSP48E1's.  I plan to start revamping the code base to better support multi-core designs and standardize the communication modules.  Hope to get my Kintex up to at least 1GH/s by throwing in two regular hashing cores.
Cool!