Can someone ... who is more into this ... comment the picture ....
what do we see here, exactly?
For me ... it looks like they removed 12 chips and its still the same old board .... isn't ...it?
It's probably a different board this time they only put 2 Avalon chips on it.
I just don't see much progress here.
TerraHash would have been better off just copying the Avalon reference design.
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It's quite obvious the chips were desoldered, look at the state of those solder pads! Why are there no power caps or power connector installed? Also what kind of test bed is this... circuit board sitting on a sheet of paper? ever hear of ESD and what it can do to high density ASICS? Glad I didn't fall for this... Good Luck all