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.

I know ASICS are pre-burned for the function they are set to do. it IS possible to program them to do more than just one thing IF said functions are on the ASIC.

but what stumps me is the promised 2 extra algorithms. if these are trully ASICS then it shouldn't be possible to add two more algorithms since the algos should of been on the ASIC already.

so either these aren't ASICS or the future algorithms are already on the ASICs but they just haven't enabled them for whatever reason.