Avalon6

Basic Information

Hashrate:
    3.65T (+-10%)

Power consumption:
    990W (measure on 12V port of the device)
    1100W (on the wall, with assumption of 90% power conversion ratio)

Power per hash:
    270J/THash (device only)
    295J/THash (on the wall, with assumption of 90% power conversion
ratio)

Overclocking:
    Support automatically optimize frequency, no need to overclock manually.

PSU ouput pin:
    4x6PIN PCIe power connector. *All must be connected.*

PSU requirements:
    Minimum 1100W output, recommend to use high quality PSU for server
with more than 1200W output and high quality power cable.
    Input voltage no lower than 11.7V and no higher than 12.2V (numbers
take from the controller)
    Lower voltage leads to lower hashrate and higher voltage leads to
possible device burning down.
    NOTICE: Poor quality cable may result in low voltage.

Fan:
    Specs: 12038
    Current: between 1.6A and 2.8A.
    Minimum RPM: 3800.
    *NOTICE* If the fan is broken or the fan's RPM cannot be measure,
the device will not start.

Controller:
    Raspberry Pi (version B or B+)
    Raspberrt Pi 2 is not supported yet.
    Each RPi can control approximate 60 devices.

AUC:
    Each AUC can connect up to 6 devices.

Dimensions:
    354x136x150mm

Net weight:
    ~4.2kg

Protection Degree:
    IP20

LED

LED Status	MEMO
White	Power on
Blue	Working normally
Yellow blinking	Idle normally
Green blinking	Detect fan and mcu
White blinking	Turn on LED manually
Red blinking	Toohot/Loopback failed/PG failed/Coretest failed/Voltage error/Temperature sensor error/No fan

MM Error Codes

Find error here

CODE	NAME	TYPE	MEMO
1	CODE_IDLE	WARN	Idle
2	CODE_TOOHOT	FATAL	Too hot
4	CODE_LOOP0FAILED	FATAL	Channel 0 loopback failed
8	CODE_LOOP1FAILED	FATAL	Channel 1 loopback failed
16	CODE_INVALIDMCU	FATAL	MCU cann't be detected
32	CODE_NOSTRATUM	WARN	No stratum
64	CODE_RBOVERFLOW	WARN	Nonce ringbuffer overflow
128	CODE_MMCRCFAILED	WARN	Find iic rx crc mismatch
256	CODE_MCUCRCFAILED	WARN	Find mcu rx crc mismatch
512	CODE_NOFAN	FATAL	Fan cann't be found
1024	CODE_PG0FAILED	FATAL	Channel 0 power good failed
2048	CODE_PG1FAILED	FATAL	Channel 1 power good failed
4096	CODE_CORETESTFAILED	FATAL	Find bad chip on channel 0 or channel 1
8192	CODE_ADC0_ERR	FATAL	Temperature sensor cann't be detected on channel 0
16384	CODE_ADC1_ERR	FATAL	Temperature sensor cann't be detected on channel 1
32768	CODE_VOL_ERR	FATAL	MM is not permit to run at the voltage for safty

TYPE meaning:

 WARN-It designates potentially harmful situations, but you can ignore it.
 FATAL-It designates very severe error events that will presumably lead the Avalon6 to crash.

Firmware

RPi Firmware

20151111

• CGMiner:Fix divide by zero in Avalon4 driver
• CGMiner:Add stratum difficulty in pool api
• CGMiner:Update option for Avalon6
• CGMiner:Update Vol api display in Avalon4 driver for Avalon6
• CGMiner:Update fan adjust for Avalon6
• CGMiner:Update target temp settting for Avalon6
• LuCI:Update display information for Avalon6
• LuCI:Update device name for Avalon6
• LuCI:Update CGMiner configuration for Avalon6
• LuCI:Update CGMiner setting for Avalon theme

20151031

• Fix nonce counter for multiple miners
• Display ASIC counts as TA in CGMiner status
• Update maximum difficulty for Avalon4 and Avalon6
• Update temperature check for Avalon6
• Add GHSmm for hash rate comparison
• Display PLL information for Avalon6
• Turn on nonce check as default for Avalon6
• Correct on voltage decode
• Enable adjust frequency automatically as default for Avalon6
• Decode voltage and temperature decode for Avalon6
• Support err code for Avalon6

20151001

• First version of Avalon6 firmware

NEXT-TESTING

• NOTICE: Only for testing
• Support Raspberry Pi 2 B
• Update SmartSpeed in CGMiner
• Update Temperature process

MM Firmware

2015-11-11

• Version 601511-e3d244c0
• Add voltage range detect
• Check maximum rpm when detect fan polar
• Check temp for bad ntc resistor
• Check voltage when MM is starting
• Monitor powergood when power on
• Update temperature check
• Update nonce process
• Update frequency table
• Fix conflict address
• Enable 25MHz clock for debug purpose
• Disable pll when if miner is invalid when process FREQ_WORK

2015-10-31

• Version 601510-afa837a0
• Update IIC and UART communication
• Support core test by AVA4_P_TEST
• Update ASIC_FREQMIN to 100MHz
• Detect ASIC counts by LOOPBACK
• Fix upgrade failed caused by i2c FIFO overflow
• Update timer function
• Use GPIO led as address indicator
• Always disable the invalid miner when PG or LOOPBACK failed
• Add PLL status in P_STATUS_M
• Add err code
• Support ADC capture
• Keep free run if MCU can't be detected
• Update led status
• Rewrite boot loader with c code

2015-09-30

• Version 601509-a2613610
• First MM firmware for Avalon6.0 S
• Support 2 miners
• Detect asic counts when start
• Support target filter

NEXT-TESTING

• NOTICE: Only for testing
• Update Core test check rules
• Update Voltage check rules (Voltage should not >= 12.8V)

MCU Firmware

2015-10-31

• Version 6C1508-afa837a0
• For adc and temperature capture use MM protocal

Software Development

CGMiner Under Ubuntu 14.04

# Daily building: http://build.canaan-creative.com:8080/~buildbot/avalon6/
#Inside your home directory, download Cgminer
git clone https://github.com/Canaan-Creative/cgminer
cd cgminer
git checkout origin/avalon4 -b avalon4
./autogen.sh --enable-avalon4
make -j 4
# Run
sudo ./cgminer --avalon4-freq 200 --avalon4-voltage 7125 -o http://stratum.pool:3333 -u  work -p pass 
or
sudo ./cgminer --avalon4-freq 200 --avalon4-voltage 7125 -o http://stratum.pool:3333 -u  work -p pass --api-allow W:192.168.2,W:192.168.2.1 --api-listen $@ 2>./log

MM

* Daily building: http://build.canaan-creative.com:8080/~buildbot/mm60/
* Avalon6 TB2 ===
$ make -C firmware PLATFORM=MM60_TB2
* Avalon6.0 S ===
$ make -C firmware

TODO

OpenWrt

1. Support Raspberry Pi 2B
2. Update with the master branch
3. Support Avalon6 in LuCI (Advanced version)
4. Keep more coding on LuCI (Avalon theme)

CGMiner

1. Add auto speed option
2. Merge the Avalon6 code to CK's master

MM

1. New board Avalon 6.2 support
2. POST
3. Temperature support
4. LPC11U14 program/update
5. Change stratum code to libstratum.a
6. Support diff = 1

Known Issues

1. MM Firmware upgrade failed