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If you are interested in acquiring hardware, contact
jason.harvey@avnet.com for the VCU1525, or Christian Robichaud of Bittware, for the Bittware XUPP3R-VU9P (
crobichaud@bittware.com). Tell them you were referred by Zetheron Technology and you want the cards for crypto-mining and they can expedite the lead time, which is currently around 4 weeks. The intro price (at Avnet) on the VCU1525 is $3995 USD, but it will be going up to around $5K in July.
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Does anyone know where else I can get the VCU1525 kit from shipped to the US? Initially I tried contacting avnet to order a board or two to play with but am getting nowhere. I signed their export agreement and every couple of days ask what I need to do to order the hardware but never get an answer to the question. Yesterday I decided to just grab one from Digikey as I have ordered a lot of parts from them in the past but as someone else mentioned they disappeared from there too.
Also thank you whitefire990 for this post, I had been interested in playing with FPGAs for a long time and this was the kick I needed.