Avalon6

Basic Information

Hashrate:
    3.5T (+-5%)

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 output 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+)
    Raspberry Pi 2 will be supported at the middle of December 2015
    Each Rpi can control approximately ~12 devices.

AUC:
    Each AUC can connect up to 6 devices.

Dimensions:
    354x136x150mm

Net weight:
    ~4.8kg

Protection Degree:
    IP20

LED

Avalon6 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

AUC2 LED

LED Status	MEMO
Blue	Initializing or Idle normally
Green	Working normally
Red	Communication failed

MM Error Codes

Query EC here

CODE	NAME	TYPE	MEMO	What to do
1	CODE_IDLE	WARN	Idle	Check if the network is ok or AUC is work normally
2	CODE_TOOHOT	FATAL	Too hot	Check if the fan is connect successfully
4	CODE_LOOP0FAILED	FATAL	Channel 0 loopback failed	Replace a new hash unit for channel 0 if PG0 is ok
8	CODE_LOOP1FAILED	FATAL	Channel 1 loopback failed	Replace a new hash unit for channel 1 if PG1 is ok
16	CODE_INVALIDMCU	FATAL	MCU cann't be detected	Replace a new CTRL board
32	CODE_NOSTRATUM	WARN	No stratum	Check if the network is ok or AUC is work normally
64	CODE_RBOVERFLOW	WARN	Nonce ringbuffer overflow	Ignore it please, If CGMiner is restart, It will be ok.
128	CODE_MMCRCFAILED	WARN	Ignore it please, If CGMiner is restart, It will be ok.	Find iic rx crc mismatch
256	CODE_MCUCRCFAILED	WARN	Find mcu rx irc mismatch	Ignore it please, If CGMiner is restart, It will be ok.
512	CODE_NOFAN	FATAL	Fan cann't be found	Check the fan connection
1024	CODE_PG0FAILED	FATAL	Channel 0 power good failed	Check the PSU for channel 0
2048	CODE_PG1FAILED	FATAL	Channel 1 power good failed	Check the PSU for channel 1
4096	CODE_CORETESTFAILED	FATAL	Find bad chip on channel 0 or channel 1	Replace a new hash unit if hash rate is too low, or else you can ignore it.
8192	CODE_ADC0_ERR	FATAL	Temperature sensor cann't be detected on channel 0	Replace a new hash unit for channel 0
16384	CODE_ADC1_ERR	FATAL	Temperature sensor cann't be detected on channel 1	Replace a new hash unit for channel 1
32768	CODE_VOL_ERR	FATAL	MM is not permit to run at the voltage for safety	Change another PSU for the machine

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

20151225

• OpenWrt:Update to 15.05
• OpenWrt:Support Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
• LuCI:Sync with for-15.05 branch (ab31abd244979d1ff234a15a4a3cf69ac1b73688)
• CGMiner:Sync with ckolivas's master (5a456afbfa028162060afd66636b7cb266b35a53)
• CGMiner:Add more options for smartspeed (Only support MM version >= 601512-xxxxxxxx)

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
• Fix duplicate address
• Update GHS counter to fix the gap between miner and mm
• Add a new smart speed option

MM Firmware

2015-12-28

• Version 601512-57532250
• Fix:Don't touch fan by miner when mm is too hot
• Fix:Update idle process with toohot detect, stratum detect, and invalid mcu protect
• Fix:Fix coretest failed cause by incorrect pll setting
• Update:Update API_TIMEOUT_CONST
• Add:Support adjust freq by CGMiner when mm is working

2015-11-24

• Version 601511-f4f59c70
• Update Core test check rules
• Update Input voltage check rules (Input voltage should not >= 12.8V)
• Fix result when run test scripts

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

MCU Firmware

2015-10-31

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

AUC2 Firmware

20151208

• AUC version: AUC-20151208
• First release

NEXT-TESTING

• NOTICE: Only for testing

Software Development

Controller firmware

CGMiner Under Ubuntu 14.04

#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

Frequency Statechart

MM

Avalon6 TB2

$ make -C firmware PLATFORM=MM60_TB2

Avalon6.0 S

$ make -C firmware

AUC2

USB Bootloader

1. Support USB-DFU Mode
2. Using USB-DFU Protocol
   1. DFU Device Descriptor
   2. DFU Interface Descriptor
   3. DFU Functional Descriptor
   4. DFU Mode Interface Descriptor
3. Detail USB-DUF Product's USB Descriptor
4. DFU Updata Process Diagram
5. How To Judge The Bootloader Program Is Updating Or Jump To Application Program
6. How To Jump To Application Program
7. Modify dfu-util For Ubuntu 14.04

    #Inside your home directory, download dfu-util

    git clone git://git.openezx.org/dfu-util.git

    open dfu-util/src/dfu_load.c

    add this instruction "milli_sleep(200);" under line 134

    cd dfu-util

    ./autogen.sh

    ./configure

    make

    The resulting binary is dfu-util/src/dfu-util.

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

Known Issues

1. MM can be upgrade by mismatch firmware.
2. local hashrate (GHS av) cann't match with the pool's hashrate
3. Use 5 or more modules in one AUC will cause MM idle periodically.
4. Duplicate MM address

FAQ

1. How to deal with the red blinking machine?

2. How to boot the machine or hashboard unit safely?