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Board Hardware
Re: Algorithmically placed FPGA miner: 245MH/s/chip and still rising
by
pusle
on 17/06/2012, 09:59:34 UTC

You have probably thought of this stuff already but here goes:

Hookup an oscilloscope to the vccint, close as possible to the fpga.
Make it look smooth on the scope at all times by:

-Make sure new midstate load etc doesn't results in spikes.

-Stagger the rings start time/midstate load/nonce wrap

-Use phase offset to interleave clock transitions for the different rings

-Ramp the clocks up gradually from idle


It could also be the PLL suffering from too much noise. Try changing the loopfilter/bandwidth of the PLL.
Might be hard but try an external high-speed clock source (connection/termination to the board is critical)