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Board Hardware
Re: NanoFury Project - Open Source Design
by
bitly
on 13/12/2013, 01:37:27 UTC
Is it possible to do a USB miner with a BFL chip?  I am guessing no since no one has done it and they are much more readily available than BF.

Might be possible, but with the BGA packaging they used makes them a lot harder to work with than the more hand-solder friendly packages like TQFP (with the leads sticking out the sides).  Plus, BFL lists the chips as out of stock, so I imagine you'd have to buy them from someone who has them stocked up just like BitFury.

The BFL chips uses 3.2 W/GH/s so that's 12.8 W/chip for the 4GH/s chip. That doesn't fall within current USB specs but may be possible in the future.