Quote from: yrk1957 on May 09, 2018, 08:41:08 PM

Did you read this:

Quote from: BittWareFPGATech on May 09, 2018, 07:48:20 PM

Sorry, I've been meaning to make a post related to this. We have been working with the OP to determine the optimal configuration and board for this application, as we have a few to choose from. The XUPP3R may not be the optimal one, we have other boards, including one with larger core power supplies and even the VU13P instead of the VU9P. The OP is working to determine the combination of FPGA size, clocks, logic, memory and power use that maximizes ROI. We do not want to sell you boards that may not be the best fit, that is in no one's best interest.

So you have not missed out, you perhaps have saved yourself from buying a non-optimal board (we actually have not yet taken any orders or shipped any boards to miners so no one is in that camp). You can still contact us and we will get back to you as soon as we have enough details to let you place an order.

So VU13P might be better? I think you are going too fast. I am interested in 2 but things need to settle down.

Edit: And OP(whitefire99) is still working specs.

I've already been at this for over a year. I've been mining on these boards since June 2017 and working on them since Jan 2017. The XCVU9P is where you want to be at. The XCVU13P isn't produce in the same quantity and it will not be as cost effective. The fact they don't know which device to get and are just figuring this out now shows how late to the game they are.

Bittware is also not going to give you a good deal. For each board they sell they're going to gross about 2/3.

Quote from: Kainzo on May 09, 2018, 08:41:17 PM

Quote from: senseless on May 09, 2018, 08:01:16 PM

The VCU1525 schematics and bom are available for anyone to produce. I have already sat down with Xilinx (in Shenzhen) and negotiated chip pricing. If there is enough interest, I could facilitate a chip purchase, put the chips on boards and deliver them at a regular price of $4,000-$4,500. To hit a $4,000-$4,500 and stay at $4,000-$4,500 there would need to be at least 1,000 boards sold. If order volume went up to or over 10,000 units pricing could be dropped to $3,000-$3,500 per unit.

You would be able to use the device with the firmwares produced by whitefire990

Any interest?

Payment methods would be Crypto (obviously) and Credit Card / Paypal (identity verification would be required and shipping to your registered / verified address)

So this would require his software? what if I want to develop my own? would I have a paper weight?

If you want to develop your own firmwares you'd need a copy of vivado. A copy of vivado would not be included with this board. But you could purchase a single unit from avnet or digikey and obtain a copy of device-locked Vivado with that (the software would only allow bitstream generation against the VCU1525, if you wanted to be able to generate bitstreams for any device you need to buy vivado outright at a cost of around $4K).