Quote from: Ironeinstein on February 28, 2018, 04:53:03 AM

Quote from: dmanukr on February 28, 2018, 01:49:36 AM

Yes I saw this.. Baikal is a Russian electronics company .. they produce the asic chips and I may be able to acquire them. The hashboard is what would be otherwise proprietary but according to prelminary discussions with my engineers, can likely be cloned or functionally matched. So my question is if someone has already photos or can make a bill of materials or components they see on the board.. or if they would sell me a working or non-working board and I'll get it done myself .. besides the asic chip listed (all the other transistors, etc.) I can put it through to see if they can source everything.

I suppose I was hinting for partners in what may be a much bigger project, as I've already decided I'm going to make the investment for the chance to get it done provided the required chips are available.. some of the skills and perhaps material that this group may have, could make it a reality in which case there would be a very small group of people with access to the resulting product. Yeah it's maybe a big dream, but it's worth it. Multi algo miners are the way to go and to understand and be able to create more efficient ones or more capable, isn't so far fetched.

In the meantime, my other question was a programming one. Isnt the firmware what is provided to flash the system or is there a rom that is pre-programmed with base functions that would have to be decompiled?

If you can source the chips, that would be a huge step toward cloning the whole miner, but I'm having a hard time picturing how you would do that ethically. I don't imagine Baikal is selling these chips on the open market.

If you decide to develop your own systems however, keep me in mind. I have some unique ideas about how to design a multi-algo asic to target a group of algorithms, but don't have the experience or resources to implement it in silicon. I also have a good idea of which algos and networks to target without causing a D3-level fiasco. Keep me in mind if you actually kick off this project.

The idea would definitely to be develop my own system ultimately, just using the x10 as a basemodel to build from. With that said I have to either have a bill of materials or a board to provide so the determination can be made whether it can be done. The ppl i'm working with say yes from photos Ive provided.. Companies do this all the time, use an existing design and improve. And yes they may not sell the chips on the open market but most likely it's their programming that's proprietary, Everything else is just components that may well be available, which is why I'm hoping someone would sell me a board or has more info on the components they find when they took apart a machine.. so I can find out.

With that said I'll probably move this discussion to a private one to find ppl seriously interested.