SUPPORTED DEVICES Currently supported devices include the Avalon (including BitBurner and Klondike), the Butterfly Labs SC range of devices, the ASICMINER block erupters and the BPMC BF1 (bitfury) USB devices. No COM ports on windows or TTY devices will be used by cgminer as it communicates directly with them via USB so it is normal for them to not exist or be disconnected when cgminer is running. The BFL devices should come up as one of the following: BAJ: BFL ASIC Jalapeño BAL: BFL ASIC Little Single BAS: BFL ASIC Single BAM: BFL ASIC Minirig BFL devices need the --enable-bflsc option when compiling cgminer yourself. Avalon will come up as AVA. Avalon devices need the --enable-avalon option when compiling cgminer. Klondike will come up as KLN. Klondike devices need the --enable-klondike option when compiling cgminer. ASICMINER block erupters will come up as AMU. ASICMINER devices need the --enable-icarus option when compiling cgminer. Also note that the AMU is managed by the Icarus driver which is detailed in the FPGA-README. Configuring them uses the same mechanism as outlined below for getting started with butterfly labs ASICs. BITFURY devices Bitfury devices need the --enable-bitfury option when compiling cgminer. Currently only the BPMC BF1 devices AKA redfury/bluefury are supported and come up as BF1. There are no options available for them. Bitfury device are also set up as per the butterfly labs ASICs below. GETTING STARTED WITH BUTTERFLY LABS ASICS Unlike other software, cgminer uses direct USB communication instead of the ancient serial USB communication to be much faster, more reliable and use a lot less CPU. For this reason, setting up for mining with cgminer on these devices requires different drivers. WINDOWS: On windows, the direct USB support requires the installation of a WinUSB driver (NOT the ftdi_sio driver), and attach it to the Butterfly labs device. The easiest way to do this is to use the zadig utility which will install the drivers for you and then once you plug in your device you can choose the "list all devices" from the "option" menu and you should be able to see the device as something like: "BitFORCE SHA256 SC". Choose the install or replace driver option and select WinUSB. You can either google for zadig or download it from the cgminer directory in the DOWNLOADS link above. When you first switch a device over to WinUSB with zadig and it shows that correctly on the left of the zadig window, but it still gives permission errors, you may need to unplug the USB miner and then plug it back in. Some users may need to reboot at this point. LINUX: On linux, the direct USB support requires no drivers at all. However due to permissions issues, you may not be able to mine directly on the devices as a regular user without giving the user access to the device or by mining as root (administrator). In order to give your regular user access, you can make him a member of the plugdev group with the following commands: sudo usermod -G plugdev -a `whoami` If your distribution does not have the plugdev group you can create it with: sudo groupadd plugdev In order for the BFL devices to instantly be owned by the plugdev group and accessible by anyone from the plugdev group you can copy the file "01-cgminer.rules" from the cgminer archive into the /etc/udev/rules.d directory with the following command: sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ After this you can either manually restart udev and re-login, or more easily just reboot. ASIC SPECIFIC COMMANDS --avalon-auto Adjust avalon overclock frequency dynamically for best hashrate --avalon-cutoff Set avalon overheat cut off temperature (default: 60) --avalon-fan Set fanspeed percentage for avalon, single value or range (default: 20-100) --avalon-freq Set frequency range for avalon-auto, single value or range --avalon-options Set avalon options baud:miners:asic:timeout:freq --avalon-temp Set avalon target temperature (default: 50) --bflsc-overheat Set overheat temperature where BFLSC devices throttle, 0 to disable (default: 90) --bitburner-fury-options Override avalon-options for BitBurner Fury boards baud:miners:asic:timeout:freq --bitburner-fury-voltage Set BitBurner Fury core voltage, in millivolts --bitburner-voltage Set BitBurner (Avalon) core voltage, in millivolts --klondike-options Set klondike options clock:temp1:temp2:fan AVALON AND BITBURNER DEVICES Currently all known Avalon devices come with their own operating system and a preinstalled version of cgminer as part of the flash firmware, based on the most current cgminer version so no configuration should be necessary. It is possible to plug a USB cable from a PC into the Avalon device and mine using cgminer as per any other device. It will autodetect and hotplug using default options. You can customise the avalon behaviour by using the avalon-options command, and adjust its fan control-temperature relationship with avalon-temp. By default the avalon will also cut off when its temperature reaches 60 degrees. All current BitBurner devices (BitBurner X, BitBurner XX and BitBurner Fury) emulate Avalon devices, whether or not they use Avalon chips. Avalon commands: --avalon-auto Adjust avalon overclock frequency dynamically for best hashrate --avalon-cutoff Set avalon overheat cut off temperature (default: 60) --avalon-fan Set fanspeed percentage for avalon, single value or range (default: 20-100) --avalon-freq Set frequency range for avalon-auto, single value or range --avalon-options Set avalon options baud:miners:asic:timeout:freq --avalon-temp Set avalon target temperature (default: 50) --bitburner-fury-options Override avalon-options for BitBurner Fury boards baud:miners:asic:timeout:freq --bitburner-fury-voltage Set BitBurner Fury core voltage, in millivolts --bitburner-voltage Set BitBurner (Avalon) core voltage, in millivolts Avalon auto will enable dynamic overclocking gradually increasing and decreasing the frequency till the highest hashrate that keeps hardware errors under 2% is achieved. This WILL run your avalon beyond its normal specification so the usual warnings apply. When avalon-auto is enabled, the avalon-options for frequency and timeout are used as the starting point only. eg: --avalon-fan 50 --avalon-fan 40-80 By default the avalon fans will be adjusted to maintain a target temperature over a range from 20 to 100% fanspeed. avalon-fan allows you to limit the range of fanspeeds to a single value or a range of values. eg: --avalon-freq 300-350 In combination with the avalon-auto command, the avalon-freq command allows you to limit the range of frequencies which auto will adjust to. eg: --avalon-temp 55 This will adjust fanspeed to keep the temperature at or slightly below 55. If you wish the fans to run at maximum speed, setting the target temperature very low such as 0 will achieve this. This option can be added to the "More options" entry in the web interface if you do not have a direct way of setting it. eg: --avalon-cutoff 65 This will cut off the avalon should it get up to 65 degrees and will then re-enable it when it gets to the target temperature as specified by avalon-temp. eg: --avalon-options 115200:24:10:45:282 The values are baud : miners : asic count : timeout : frequency. Baud: The device is pretty much hard coded to emulate 115200 baud so you shouldn't change this. Miners: Most Avalons are 3 module devices, which come to 24 miners. 4 module devices would use 32 here. For BitBurner X and BitBurner XX devices you should use twice the number of boards in the stack. e.g. for a two-board stack you would use 4. For BitBurner Fury devices you should use the total number of BitFury chips in the stack (i.e. 16 times the number of boards). e.g. for a two-board stack you would use 32. Asic count: Virtually all have 10, so don't change this. BitBurner devices use 10 here even if the boards have some other number of ASICs. Timeout: This is how long the device will work on a work item before accepting new work to replace it. It should be changed according to the frequency (last setting). It is possible to set this a little lower if you are trying to tune for short block mining (eg p2pool) but much lower and the device will start creating duplicate shares. A value of 'd' means cgminer will calculate it for you based on the frequency Sample settings for valid different frequencies (last 2 values): 34:375 * 36:350 * 39:325 * 43:300 45:282 (default) 47:270 50:256 Frequency: This is the clock speed of the devices. For Avalon devices, only specific values work, 256, 270, 282 (default), 300, 325, 350 and 375. For BitBurner devices, other values can be used. Note that setting a value with an asterisk next to it will be using your avalon outside its spec and you do so at your own risk. The default frequency for BitBurner X and BitBurner XX boards is 282. The default frequency for BitBurner Fury boards is 256. Overclocking is possible - please consult the product documentation and/or manufacturer for information on safe values. Values outside this range are used at your own risk. Underclocking is also possible, at least with the X and XX boards. eg: --bitburner-fury-options Override avalon-options for BitBurner Fury boards baud:miners:asic:timeout:freq This option takes the same format as --avalon-options. When specified, it will be used for BitBurner Fury boards in preference to the values specified in --avalon-options. (If not specified, BitBurner Fury boards will be controlled by the values used in --avalon options.) See --avalon-options for a detailed description of the fields. This option is particularly useful when using a mixture of different BitBurner devices as BitBurner Fury devices generally require significantly different clock frequencies from Avalon-based devices. This option is only available for boards with recent firmware that are recognized by cgminer as BBF. eg: --bitburner-fury-voltage Set BitBurner Fury core voltage, in millivolts Sets the core voltage for the BitBurner Fury boards. The default value is 900. Overvolting is possible - please consult the product documentation and/or manufaturer about the safe range of values. Values outside this range are used at your own risk. This option is only available for boards with recent firmware that are recognized by cgminer as BBF. For boards recognized as BTB, see --bitburner-voltage eg: --bitburner-voltage Set BitBurner (Avalon) core voltage, in millivolts Sets the core voltage for the Avalon-based BitBurner X and BitBurner XX boards. The default value is 1200. Overvolting and undervolting is possible - please consult the product documentation and/or the manufacturer for information about the safe range. Values outside this range are used at your own risk. Older BitBurner Fury firmware emulates a BitBurner XX board and is identified by cgminer as BTB. On these devices, --bitburner-voltage is used to control the voltage of the BitBurner Fury board. The actual core voltage will be 300mV less than the requested voltage, so to run a BitBurner Fury board at 950mV use --bitburner-voltage 1250. The default value of 1200 therefore corresponds to the default core voltage of 900mV. If you use the full curses based interface with Avalons you will get this information: AVA 0: 22/ 46C 2400R The values are: ambient temp / highest device temp lowest detected ASIC cooling fan RPM. Use the API for more detailed information than this. BFLSC Devices --bflsc-overheat Set overheat temperature where BFLSC devices throttle, 0 to disable (default: 90) This will allow you to change or disable the default temperature where cgminer throttles BFLSC devices by allowing them to temporarily go idle. --- This code is provided entirely free of charge by the programmer in his spare time so donations would be greatly appreciated. Please consider donating to the address below. Con Kolivas 15qSxP1SQcUX3o4nhkfdbgyoWEFMomJ4rZ