Avalon4 mini

Booting flow
  1. Plug the 12V power
  2. Plug the USB
  • Note: Please wait the device idle(LED B on) when you run CGMiner.

CGMiner Under Ubuntu 14.04

Download

 
Inside your home directory, download CGMiner
git clone https://github.com/Canaan-Creative/cgminer

Compile

 
cd cgminer
git checkout origin/avalon4 -b avalon4
./autogen.sh --enable-avalon-miner
make -j 4

Run

 
sudo ./cgminer --avalonm-freq 100 --avalonm-voltage 6250 -o http://stratum.pool:3333 -u  work -p pass 
or
sudo ./cgminer --avalonm-freq 275:250:200 --avalonm-voltage 6250 -o http://stratum.pool:3333 -u  work -p pass
or
sudo ./cgminer --avalonm-freq 100 --avalonm-voltage 6250 -o http://stratum.pool:3333 -u  work -p pass --api-allow W:127.0.0.1 --api-listen $@ 2>./log

Tweak
  • Voltage
 Format: ascset|ASCN,voltage,value
 eg: cgminer-api "ascset|0,voltage,7000"
  • Frequency
 Format: ascset|ASCN,frequency,chip id-value
 eg: cgminer-api "ascset|0,frequency,0-450:390:370"   /* set all chips work at 450:390:370, about 414 Mhz = (450 * 4 + 390 * 4 + 370) / 9 */
     cgminer-api "ascset|0,frequency,1-200"  /* set chip 1 works at 200 Mhz */

LED
LED OFF ON BLINKING MEMO
PWR Check USB cable USB Power good
R Post succeed Post failed
G PMU power off PMU power on Hot alert
B Hashing IDLE

Chrome APP

20150515
  • First version of Avalon miner Chrome APP

Firmware

20150515
  • First version of Avalon4 mini firmware

Firmware Upgrade

ISP method (Under windows)
  1. Short two pins like below.
  2. Power on the device only with usb cable (without 12v), The led RGB and power will all turn on.
  3. You can use Flash Magic through UART1（Baud：19200） to download the firmware (hex file)

Issues
  • libusb_claim_interface fails when run CGMiner under Mac OS X
 Avalon4 mini is a HID device.
 We cann't use libusb to access HID devices under Mac OS X, 
 you can find the answer here: http://www.libusb.org/ticket/89#comment:3 and http://www.libusb.org/ticket/89#comment:11
  • lpc21isp is not work on Max OS X and Ubuntu

There is a err when upload the firmware.

Sector 1: ..Wrong answer on Write-Command
ADDR_NOT_MAPPED: Address is not mapped in the memory map.
                Count value is taken in to consideration where applicable.
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