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by runeks 4162 days ago
This looks pretty cool.

Would love to see a toy example of a double-SHA256 engine. Would be kind of cool if people could build their own Bitcoin mining ASIC, crowd fund it, and give everyone access to cheap Bitcoin mining ASICs.

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Thanks!

You might be interested by my implementation of SHA-256 in Cx available on Github: https://github.com/synflow/sha-256 It is a toy example (I haven't implemented the pre-processing step), with an architecture that offers a good trade-off in terms of performance / area, so it's probably not the ideal implementation if you want a very highly-optimized ASIC, but it's still a good starting point.

This needs to become a thing!!! I guess I will give Cx a chance.
We hope so too :) If somehow Cx doesn't live up to its promises and what you expect from it, please let us know! We're still improving it based on the feedback we get. Thanks!