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Do you know how bitcoin miners use FPGAs? They're used for communication somehow. The Antminer S7 uses an SoC FPGA which allegedly was being used with ASICBoo
by hrac 9y ago
Do you know how bitcoin miners use FPGAs? They're used for communication somehow. The Antminer S7 uses an SoC FPGA which allegedly was being used with ASICBoost.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoYou can implement many forms of I/O on FPGA's that let you bridge things that otherwise can't communicate for whatever reason. The FPGA can also be used to accelerate I/O vs a software implementation. For example, many network devices offload TCP/IP from the host. Finally, the connecting systems might have the necessary I/O built-in but FPGA accelerates some computational part of it. You see that in compression, TLS or IPsec engines. I don't know what Bitcoin people are doing. The above are common use cases, though.