Quote from: qed on June 12, 2011, 01:46:43 AM

Quote from: ahtremblay on June 12, 2011, 12:59:00 AM

Quote from: qed on June 12, 2011, 12:33:21 AM

Quote from: ahtremblay on June 11, 2011, 07:31:17 AM

I have a rudimentary design right now. It is the circuit in gate array format that I designed. It is not a final design by any means, but it allows me to identify the key bottlenecks of the system, calculate gate propagation, maximum clock speed, etc. So what I have from this is; 8MHz clock, 1 hash per clock, and 100 pipelines. This could fit on low volume production run for 27$ / ASIC from TSMC. You then need to add the cost of shipping, putting it on a PCB board and add a controller, + design cost for the lithography. So basically, 800 Megahash/s, for 57$ or so (+ design costs spread across the production line). And that is without the optimization to the main bottleneck (a 7 input adder) that I am working on. So it is encouraging.

You can easily add 4-5 ASIC on each PCB board improve the Hash/$ ratio. So, with 5 ASIC per board, you would get 4GIGAHASH/s for 165$ (+ design cost). (the price of a 5850). Essentialy it makes gpu mining obselite.

Absolutely impossible.

Hello, care to elaborate a little more?

I have developed in Xilinx ISE and from my experience that's way off. How many gates do you have? To have 1 hash/clock it must be insanely big, and you have to multiply it by 1000 (as you said). Hoe did you guess the production cost?

Even without knowing anything about algorithms Bitcoins and other stuff, the fact is: Commercial solutions are slower and more expensive, how a person with no experience make something better, faster and cheaper?

I never said I had not experience. In fact, I said I am a physicist with 1 year of masters in electrical engineering. I said I understand, transistor, gate logic and most if the solid state physics stuff related to electronics, since thats what I did for a few years at the university. I said, I had no experience design on a massive scale using current software and compiling the data to the TSMC format. Thats a lot different than no experience or no knowledge of the issue. The reason I know the price per units is because I have a quote from TSMC.

Anyways, I have hired a firm to help out with the design from start to finish. So things will go smoothly now.