Bitmain Asic Miner Machine , Antminer L7 9.5gh 9.16gh Doge Coin Litecoin Scrypt Mining

About this miner

Antminer L7 9160M from Bitmain is designed for mining Scrypt algorithm with a maximum hash rate of 9160 Mh/s, power consumption of 3425W±10%, and power efficiency of 0.38 W/Mh. This mining server uses the industry-leading solutions and an optimized design. Machines are easy to deploy and adaptive to mining farms of different sizes.

As feature sizes have shrunk and design tools improved over the years, the maximum complexity (and hence functionality) possible in an ASIC Antminer L7 9160M has grown from 5,000 logic gates to over 100 million. Modern ASICs often include entire microprocessors, memory blocks including ROM, RAM, EEPROM, flash memory and other large building blocks. Such an ASIC is often termed a SoC (system-on-chip). Designers of digital ASICs often use a hardware description language (HDL), such as Verilog or VHDL, to describe the functionality of ASICs.

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) are the modern-day technology for building a breadboard or prototype from standard parts[vague]; programmable logic blocks and programmable interconnects allow the same FPGA to be used in many different applications. For smaller designs or lower production volumes, FPGAs may be more cost-effective than an ASIC design, even in production. The non-recurring engineering (NRE) cost of an ASIC can run into the millions of dollars.

Therefore, Antminer L7 9160M device manufacturers typically prefer FPGAs for prototyping and devices with low production volume and ASICs for very large production volumes where NRE costs can be amortized across many devices.