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Crypto Mining on FPGA Board!

cbohra00627

I was wondering if I could somehow do some crypto mining on my Arty S7-50 board. I know that it might not be much profitable. ASICs are better for this job. But I want to try it just for education purposes.

What does the members think? Will it be profitable i.e. will it be able to mine enough amount of crypto to cover the electricity cost? Where do I start from?

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  • I haven't looked deeply into it, but as far as I know, it isn't easy to implement. There is also the fact that you need to connect it to the internet, which could be done through an ethernet module or by communicating with a host PC (you would be limited by the Baud rate probably). In any way, it would be challenging to implement on a single standalone FPGA without using any high-speed communication protocol (USB 2.0 or higher) or even PCIe. It would probably be much easier using an Arty A7 (due to integrated Ethernet). Still, it would probably be much easier to implement into an SoC. There are some boards on AliExpress that are less than 50€ and would suit the needs a lot better (EBAZ4205, colorlight i5/i9) along with the fact that new FPGA boards are getting more and more expensive.

  • in reply to jure

    Yeah, you are right. The Arty S7 doesn't have any ethernet port.

    I guess I will do some research by myself and see if it is possible in any way or not.

    Thanks!

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