SoCKIT Litecoin Mining
I recently tried Bitcoin mining on a Arrow SoCKIT development board and concluded that Bitcoin mining was to hard given my hardware. Therefore I decided to try Litecoin mining on my SoCKIT. The algorithm used for Litecoin is scrypt. It is supposed to be harder to use FPGAs and ASICs to do Litecoin mining compared to Bitcoin mining. As a starting point i used FPGA-Litecoin-Miner from github. I ported the code for the BeMicro development board to the SoCKIT. The porting was very easy. I just copied the project, changed the FPGA and IO assignment, duplicated logic to use the extra resources on this FPGA and adjusted the clocking. My fork of the Litecoin miner can be found at github. The resulting miner had a performance of ~5khps. As a comparison my GPU, a ASUS 560 Ti, has a performance of ~130khps. The performance of the FPGA is to low to give a income alone, but GPU mining may give a small income.