Quote from: Odeyin on December 17, 2014, 01:54:27 AM

Quote from: klondike_bar on December 16, 2014, 03:08:49 PM

Quote from: Odeyin on December 16, 2014, 04:14:58 AM

This is an awesome project. Thank you.

I would like to add something I noticed.

I was looking at my S1 boards and my BTCGarden board. They are pretty much the same thing. There are a few more capacitors around the chips on the BTC Garden, (that probably is there to handle the extra power they put through.), but my question is this. Why is there a central FPGA? I would understand if it was using the board as its own control, but it is running network and cgminer through a RaspBerryPi. It uses half the chips of the S1 and gets about double it's hashrate. I am presuming the kicker is the FPGA.
So...if we hook-up an S1 Board to and FPGA board and run it through that and reversing the cgminer that BTCGarden is using..could we possibly quadruple the hashrate of the S1?

(Ie: If the BTC Garden runs 1 board at 155Ghash with 16 chips and an FPGA...would it not go to assume that 1 Board of S1 with 32 chips and FPGA would go about 4 x 85Ghash or 340Ghash?)

BTW: BTC Garden is using an Altera Cyclone IV chip.

The s1 and the btcgarden use entirely different asic chips with different specs.

Do you have a Datasheet on the chips?

That still doesn't explain the FPGA.

the fpga might just be programmed as a custom control chip..