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Board Hardware
Re: ASICMiner BE300S Samples Arrived, <0.2W/G Achieved at Board Level
by
Luke-Jr
on 11/12/2014, 12:58:14 UTC
10Gh USB miner? Cheesy Maybe?

Maybe this could be a return of the super cheap USB miners.
The component overhead of USB miners is still a problem.

1 MCU, 1 DCDC, 1 USB-to-UART chip, for each 2 chips, is so much cost to take.

If we make a 8 to 9 chip USB miner (about 40G), DCDC cost can be saved. But USB2.0 does
not have enough watt capability to power it.
One could drop the MCU and use a USB-to-GPIO (or similar, depending on chip interface) to offload work onto the host....