Quote from: tboy32c on February 28, 2018, 03:22:52 PM

Quote from: dmanukr on February 28, 2018, 01:22:31 PM

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.

If you can procure the actual ASIC chips that changes everything. I'd definitely be interested if that were the case.

That being said, as you probably know, ASICs are Application Specific and aren't programmable or else they wouldn't be "application specific" by definition. The original prototype design is done on an FPGA which is Field Programmable and can, therefore, be reprogrammed. When ASICs are manufactured there's no need for them to be programmable anymore.

I found this to be a good read: http://www.7400.digital/.

I imagine all other components could be pretty easily sourced. The entire premise hinges on sourcing available ASICs, so I'd focus on that goal first before looking at the rest of the miner.

As mentioned, if you do find yourself with Baikal's ASICs in-hand, be sure to let me know.

Yes thanks am familiar but thanks for read... The X10 obviously is uniquein that something IS programmable otherwise it couldn't offer multiple and diverse algos. It's likely that the chosen algos share common set of routines that allowed the asic design while algo differentials are controlled by other components...guess of course. My first thought was the STM chip on the controller and that may be but likely another chip on the hashboard. The STM chip is readily available but the controller board is complex.. more complex than the hashboard according to my contacts.

Let's continue off public board.. anyone else interested are welcome to dm me.