Bit coin mining with FPGA (Single board reo)

[mulemanning]

Would it be possible to configure the RIO FPGA to run Mining tools and if so are there tutorials / example codes avalible for simlar tasks? 
Regards

[AudioVideoDisco]

Hi there,

Thanks for posting. Unfortunately there are no tutorials/example code showing how to run Mining tools using an sbRIO however I am sure that it is possible. As interest in Bitcoin mining rises there will no doubt be something developed in the future (if the developer chooses to share it!).

Best Regards,

Paul

Applications Engineer

NI UK & Ireland

[Dragis]

There is an open source FPGA BitCoin project. You can import that source into LabVIEW FPGA utilizing the various import mechanisms -OR- you could use that as a starting point to write some LabVIEW code to do the same : )

https://github.com/progranism/Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner

I'd love to see someone put this together.

[mulemanning]

This is interesting I have it bookmarked no thanks sadly my schedule closed up on me so will be a while until I can attempt this 
Regards 
Stu

[Engineer137]

This would be an interesting project.

[joaopam]

That would be a great project.

Imagine a mining group using FPGAs... Well, I'll think about it.

[UKCraig]

What could be the rate of return?
How long would it take to mine a coin, how much electricity would be used?

Of course you would have to have the hardware already.

[yuval_yohai]

I'm also into this thing.

Any news will be welcomed.

I have looked into the FPGA project and it is written in Verilog - not compatible with Labview FPGA.

There is though a project done using vhdl for xilinx but it won't compile - any of you who know vhdl is welcomed to help.

[Dragis]

You can import Verilog with LabVIEW FPGA through the IPIN or CLIP features, you just need to wrap the top-level Verilog file inside a VHDL file. In other words, the tool can handle mixed Verilog and VHDL designs, the top-level file just needs to be VHDL (for editor reasons).

[Dragis]

There are several successful projects using FPGAs for mining. However, you really need a big FPGA to get a reasonable rate-of-return as you can now purchase ASICs that have been custom designed just for bitcoin mining so you need a powerful FPGA to out-do them. Overall, though, FPGAs are generally much more power efficient than CPUs or GPUs for this sort of custom processing; much lower power per operation.