Avalon

Avalon Project

Native name	阿瓦隆项目
Industry	Chip Design
Founded	2012
Founder(s)	张楠赓[transliteration needed] Yifu Guo
Parent	Canaan Creative
Website	Canaan Creative

The Avalon Project produces ASIC miners. The project created by 张楠赓^{[transliteration needed]} and Yifu Guo. The project started in late 2012 with a BitcoinTalk thread.

Avalon project have three different ASIC, named A3256, A3255, A3233, have two type of bitcoin transaction machines. Avalon1 and Avalon2. right now Avalon project people working very hard on third generation machine. named Avalon3. it is 2U size, using the newest 40nm ASIC, (7GHS/chip, 0.7Watt/G).

After one year of Avalon project started, Yifu Guo(Bitsyncom) left Avalon project. The Canaan Creative (founded by ngzhang) have full in charge of the project running from 2014 and EHash.com(The online shop that accept Bitcoin) was part of Canaan Creative.

For users	For developers	For businesses
Avalon1, Using A3256, 66/110GHs machine Avalon2, Using A3255, 145/300GHs machine Avalon3, Using A3233, 105/290/800/GHs machine Avalon4, Using A3222, 580 ~ 680W/T, 1T machine Avalon6, Using A3218, 980W/T, 3.5T machine Avalon3.5, Using A3233, Prepare for Avalon4 Avalon5, Using A3222, Prepare for Avalon6 Avalon nano, Using only one A3233, Small USB device. Avalon4 mini, Using 5 A3222 chips, a portable usb device. AMS A web base Avalon Management System. used on a 20,000 Avalon3-290 farm. here is the 3D version AMS. Avalon mm tools is the tools for upgrade MM firmware or testing the ASIC cores.	Downloads Software engineering Mailing list for discussion IRC channel for share and help IRC logs Avalon Chinese Shop(中文商城) Avalon usb vid/pid list	Online shop: ehash.com Company Website Please email to service@canaan-creative.com for more informations

Links

Social Media

• https://twitter.com/canaanio
• https://www.facebook.com/canaanio

Bitcointalk thread

• Valkir's Comprehensive Avalon Avalon4 Setup
• Dogie's Comprehensive Avalon Avalon4 Setup
• Avalon ASIC users thread
• Avalon MM (miner manager) development thread
• Avalon Gen2&3 ASIC users thread
• Avalon authorized e-shop EHash.com online
• Avalon4 (A3222, 28nm, ~25GHS, ~0.6W/G) sample chips available here: EHash.com
• Dogie's Comprehensive Avalon Avalon3 Setup
• Dogie's Comprehensive Avalon Avalon2 Setup

AMA

Join us on Reddit this Thursday, April 9, at 9am Eastern Standard Time. We will use the ID=AvalonBTC. The website: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA

This is your chance to ask Ngzhang anything about the Bitcoin mining in China, Bitcoin in China, Any question of Avalon project(and anything else you like). Make sure to mark it on your calendar. Ngzhang will answer questions for 90 minutes. Get your questions ready!

Ngzhang(张楠赓)：江湖人称“南瓜张”；世界上第一台ASIC矿机“阿瓦隆”的发明者。资深动漫宅男。