Shawn
December 27, 2018, 10:18pm
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Hi @TransAmDan welcome to the Forum! I haven’t personally seen someone build successful code for a FPGA for Equihash, so you would be the first
Here are links to threads where the idea has been discussed before, maybe you could dig through them and find something useful or someone to team up with to tackle the project:
Hello ZCash Community!
All of the recent discussions about the benefits and weaknesses of various mining hardware such as GPUs, FPGAs and ASICS gave me the idea of trying to develop my own low cost SoC FPGA for Equihash mining.
I’ve decide to use the Terasic DE10-nano development board which is a low cost FPGA designed for academia. It is based off of the Altera Cyclone V - 5CSEBA6U2317. I chose this board for it’s a lost cost and energy efficiency. ThE DE10-nano is a SoC FPGA with a dual cor…
Hi all,
Can’t believe noone else has mentioned this yet; but has anyone considered implementing Equihash on an FPGA board?
While its true that Equihash is a memory-hard algorithm, there are many ‘shared-memory’ FPGA implementations, where more than one FPGA has access to a segment of shared memory concurrently.
Where a GPU falls down is when a call to Global memory is made, resulting in a fetch that costs time (GPUs can make quick memory calls but to very small size segments).
Additionally F…
Good luck!
