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Board Hardware
Re: Open Source Avalon Gen2 55nm Board
by
Ostenbacken
on 02/02/2014, 10:19:13 UTC
Which PCB design file/s are you guys using for your boards?  I just don't want to risk building up an old PCB with current firmware.
PCB changes were minor, so any PCB design version, if it works at all, should also work with the latest firmware (the one that I posted). I would NOT recommend building the 16-chip board for the reason of overloading the voltage converter. Or if you build it, mount 10-12 chips on it. With chips working in turbo mode, it's 2.5W per GH. At 1.6GH the power per chip is 4W which corresponds to 4A current draw per chip. So with 12 chips you'll get 48A which is just below the maximum rated load (50A) of the voltage converter module. This way your circuit should run safely. To have a little extra margin, 10 chips would be even better.