Quote from: DigitalCruncher on March 15, 2018, 04:52:50 AM

Quote from: JohnSch on March 15, 2018, 03:54:48 AM

Which FPGA do you think would run Cryptonight the best?

Personally I prefer large 16 nm FPGA. You can build almost any altcoin except ETH.
I am looking at the directed graph of operations in Cryptonight algorithm, and I don't like it. The 128 bit multiplier and AES blocks have high latency and therefore the storage of the 2 MB contexts must be done in the external memory. The good news are that logical resources are almost free and it probably possible to build dual miner Monero+nist5. Also DSP blocks are suitable to build triple mode miner XMR+nist5+some another coin. So I prefer diversification, although the top-range FPGA part could be not optimal for solo XMR mining.

I have seen the messages in the discussion of the XMR V7 POW selection. Some man advises to use high bandwidth memory with serial interfaces. I would agree, but it could be complicated and expensive solution.
Maybe HyperRAM is also usable, I like low cost and simple interface of this memory,

I do not understand why you could not just use the internal memory located inside the FPGA. Many new 16nm Fpga has upwards of 75 megabyte of memory. I would think having 37 really fast cores would be better than trying to use slow external ram.

Anyways, I found a reddit post of someone who supposedly did 20 kh/s on an monero FPGA miner. https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/7s9zwe/fpga_mining/

Could you give a link to the XMR V7 discussion?