I dont remember if anyone has asked this prior. Ive been silently watching in the background...
Anyway for the PIC firmware, i remember you stating that it subdivides the nonce range by n chips and pushes those ranges to the chips.
How difficult/possible would it be to rework the FW to do 1 job per chip?
This is just out of curiosity since i put in an order for 5 chips in a group buy + board ( once finalized [TY, T13Hydra]).
-Taugeran
It would be more than a firmware change to do this for 5 chips.
The hardware would also need to be changed.
If you have 5 chips you could put 4 of them on the K16 board and it should work quit well.
For example using the current design you would place the ASIC's at U6,U8,U9,U11.
Maybe use the extra chip in a K1.