IOTA’s PoW needs a lot of calculation power. For instance, a test with an example transaction showed that the Raspberry needs about 90 seconds until it founds a valid nonce.
In order to speed up PoW dramatically, the IOTA Pearl-Diver algorithm was ported to a FPGA (VHDL) which enables platforms like Raspberry Pi to find a valid nonce within ~350ms.
Currently, it is running on Altera DE1 (Cyclon2 with 22kLE @ 220MHz, 85% resources used) and archives 12.8MH/s - for an arbitrary choosen transaction it took less than 500ms to find a valid nonce.
This respository will not only contain VHDL source code and Altera DE1 project-files but also everything needed for a custom PCB (with a modern FPGA Cyclone 10 LP) which is plugged on top of a Raspberry Pi. Proto-Type is reaching 14.6MH/s :)
There is a fork of dcurl here which supports the FPGA here:
https://github.com/shufps/dcurl
Please have a look on the project website:
http://microengineer.eu/2018/04/25/iota-pearl-diver-fpga/
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