Quote from: DeaDTerra on June 05, 2013, 09:29:41 PM

Quote from: whisper on June 05, 2013, 09:25:36 PM

Quote from: johnyj on June 05, 2013, 09:19:42 PM

I noticed that on their linux machine, they even had a seperate console utility to monitor the status of all the FPGAs (temp, current, power usage etc), this means that they have a whole suite of FPGA related design platform, and they just fit bitcoin's hashing function into that platform

And they said they are not going to have an ASIC prototype, just replace the FPGA with standard cell ASIC and direct go for mass production. I think this is risky, without a prototype, how can they sure all the heat and power usage fall in a reasonable level? Unless they have done this many times before, they might encounter what BFL experienced last year

Why u dont ask them?

He did, they said something in the lines of that it is a linear progression from the FPGA.
And that you can make some basic calculations to estimate both the watt and the hashing power based on the FPGA performance (as I understood it).
//DeaDTerra

ORSOC have pretty damn solid background in fpga design and development as far as I understand. If they are betting that they can do a pretty straight swap from fpga -> ASIC I for one would probably bet they know what they are talking about.

fwiw Sweden has some pretty damn talented engineers and programmers, especially in open source and electro mechanics.