nilrods Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 I ran across this interesting FPGA board the other day and thought I would share. It was designed for bitcoin mining back when they were still using FPGA's. I saw some new boards, probably closeouts since most bitcoin miners have moved on to ASIC's. From what I read it's primary purpose was bitcoin mining but the guy that came up with the board as designed it to be a development board and sold most of the first batch to developers rather than bitcoin miners. From what I read the board worked well. Here are some basic specs - 2X Spartan 6 LX150, 100+ GPIO(looks like in DIMM form factor) 50+ interconnect wires between the 2 Spartan 6 most routed as differential pairs. The board is open sourced. I see them right now for sale for like $160, which to me seems ridiculously cheap since the price I see for Spartan 6 LX150 is about that price for one(I am sure they bought on volume at some point in the past). I wonder how much work it would be to add support for a board like that to the DesignLab. Might be great for some of those bigger, more complicated projects. I have my eye on one for an AI project I have been getting interested in. more info http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Icarus Just my thoughts. Thanks,Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkarlsson Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 Just so you know, the LX150 is not supported by the free ISE webpack license. Magnus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilrods Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 Magnus,Great info. I wasn't aware of that. Oh well... Thanks,Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbeetem Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 Icarus is a great name for an ambitious project that you expect to crash and burn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilrods Posted July 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 hehehehe, I thought the same thing myself when I first saw the name. Not sure I would have called an electronics board after a project that ended in flames myself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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