Xilinx / blockchainacceleration

EthereumMiner

EthereumMiner is Xilinx's open-sourced solution written in C++ for Ethereum mining.

Currently, this solution offers:

• On device side, a Vitis based kernel design to accelerate Ethash, which is hashing algorithm of Ethereum.
• Also, a Vitis based kernel design to accelerate "DAG" generation, which provides the large dataset needed by Ethash.
• On host side, a patch to "ethminer" which is the most popular mining software, for customer to do mining with their own account and desired mining pool.

Requirement

• Currently this solution support Xilinx Varium C1100, you need installed packages for the card, like XRT / firmware and development package for the card.
• If you would like to build the xclbin files on your own machine, you'll also need Vitis that is at least 2021.1 or later version. You could also download pre-buildt xclbin files from Xilinx. Please take reference from "Step to run".

Step to run

• 1. Get xclbins ready. You can either download them from Xilinx or try build them yourself. To download from Xilinx: "./build.sh get_xclbin". To build your self: "./build.sh build_ethash" and "./build.sh build_daggen"
• 2. Get ethminer ready: "./build.sh build_host"
• 3. Run: "./build mine <your_account> <your_mine_name> <mining_pool_address>"

License

Licensed using the Apache 2.0 license.

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