Most of the manufacturers support openCL including Xilinx with SDaccel.  I am just wanting to mess around with it.  I managed to get the GOminer to work with Zcash on GPU’s (although it was slow since I was using open source kernels), its was a great learning experience for someone as inexperienced as me.  

I figure if I can get a starting point with a miner then I can trace it down and mess around with it as well.  I am good at hacking others code but not a coder by nature.

I am using a Kintex 7 which has enough kick to do the mining imho but it will certainly not be fast. 

I am not pointing to anything.  I am offering $7500 for someone to write a functional Cryptonight V7 FPGA miner.

I am trying to build a CryptoNightV7 FPGA Miner.  Knowing that it is not cost effective, what type of hashrate could be achieved with a Kintex-7, Virtex-7 or even the UltraScale and UltraScale+.

I am looking at it for research purposes and do not have the desire nor the finances to scale it.  It is simply a desire to do it.

Here is a perfect example of a project that I have enjoyed and wish to do the same with CryptoNight. 

https://github.com/pedrorivera/SiaFpgaMiner

I think messing around with his miner is a lot of fun.  I am NOT trying to compete with GPU’s but love messing around with new hardware and software.  As you can see from his hashrate, it is not a viable alternative to GPU mining (and particularly now that there are ASICs).


I am offering a bounty for an FPGA Cryptonight miner, the link I will post in my signature.

Look forward to input from some of the bitcointalk programmers.

Thanks

You have no idea what I am doing or what I am going to use it for.  You are making ASSumptions and do not know what you are talking about so please go elsewhere

I have opened this account for anonymity purposes.  As the title states, I am offering $7500 in the crypto of your choice to write a functioning FPGA miner for CryptoNightv7. 

This thread is not to discuss the practicality or cost effectiveness of such a miner.  For all intensive purposes we all know it is not cost effective.  Here are the rules/outline for the project.

- The miner must successfully mine Monero using cryptonightv7 on an FPGA
- The miner must be optimized for a Kintex-7 or better FPGA
- The miner must remain private.
-If the programmer needs a Kintex-7 or better to work on I will set up remote access for them.


If someone is seriously interested please contact me by PM, I would prefer to keep this as private as possible.

I will put the BTC in escrow if I have a taker on the project.  I will use either Philipma1957 or OgNasty.

The value of the bitcoin will be determined at the completion of the project.  Example, if the BTC price is $7500 when the person starts working I will put 1 BTC in escrow, if the price of BTC rises or falls I will compensate for the price at the close of the work.