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Re: Baikal Giant N - Cryptonight, Cryptonight-lite FPGA/ASIC miner
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garytheasshole
on 18/03/2018, 22:59:50 UTC
Quote from: QuintLeo on March 18, 2018, 10:49:10 PM
Quote from: Mattthev on March 18, 2018, 08:24:48 PM
Quote from: sylabis on March 18, 2018, 06:26:54 PM
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just wait a little bit longer, then you will get them for free Grin
Too late buddy Cheesy Only good thing that comes from Baikal is that it should be FPGA Cheesy


Baikal use ASIC chips in all their miners. The whole they must be "FPGA" because they support multi algo is BS.  
How can ASIC support more algos? Giant N has also AEON but Bitmain doesn't.

Same way the Gridseed GC3355 and the SFARDS upgrade to that chip supported COMPLETELY UNRELATED ALGORITHMS (SHA256 and Scrypt) did - they are designed with sections for each algorithm - as one option.

For X16 it's easier - just have each "component" algorithm with it's own part of the chip, then use a on-chip switching system with external control to route the data as needed for each sub-algorithm.
Note that many of the algorithms used in X16 are also used as separate algorithms for mining by some coins, and the "lower" X series algorithms starting with X11 grew INTO X16 via adding another algorithm or two.

I'm not sure on cryptonight/cryptonight light if you need separate sections or just a way to "switch" on the chip from one to the other, never looked at the difference(s) between the two.



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