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Re: Custom FPGA Mining Board: X6000/X6500
by
fizzisist
on 21/10/2011, 12:08:59 UTC
There is an other FPGA Board at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49180.

The Board currently achieves 190 MH/s on a single Spartan 6 XC6SLX150-3. For amounts of 5 or larger it is cheaper (i.e. more MH/s per $, see https://bitcointalk.org for volume discounts) and it is about 50% more efficient.

The Software is Open Source, see http://www.ztex.de/btcminer an reached a mature level. A cluster mode with hot-plugging allows to run many FPGA board from a single software instance.

Boards are available immediately.

I don't think it's fair to say that your board achieves greater MH/s or efficiency. The board design should not impact this, and both of our boards use the same FPGAs. At $/FPGA, our X6500 has you beat ($290 vs. $460). In addition, nothing is stopping an adventurous user from running your code on our board.

On the other hand, if you really have achieved 190 MH/s on this FPGA, kudos to you!