icepool-board

KiCad 5 design files for the icepool project.

icepool is a FPGA cluster and development board.

Key features include,

• 16x headers for daughter boards.
• An FT2232H for USB communication and parallel FPGA flashing.
• One-to-many SPI interface for sending data from the PC to each daughter board.
• Daisy-chained SPI interface for passing data to and from the PC and each daughter board.
• A 6-pin ATX +12V power connector for use with conventional PC power supplies.

Currently, the project includes a daughter board design featuring a single ice40hx8k-bg121 FPGA with independent 1.2V LDO, 12MHz oscillator, and indicator LED.

Dependencies

This project depends on the following KiCad libraries:

• Digi-Key/digikey-kicad-library
• jkiv/jkiv-kicad-library

These repositories are set up as git submodules and can be cloned into hardware/external/ using the following two commands:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Drivers

See jkiv/icepool-driver project for a general-purpose Linux C library with Python3 bindings.

Cores

• jkiv/shapool-core - a SHA256d hashing core for cryptocurrency mining.

Donate

Please consider supporting this project and others like it by donating:

• ☕: ko-fi.com/jkiv_
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