Testvectors for dedicated hardware miner

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I have written my own hardware implementation for hash computation. I am participating in a pool, that is I get sent the midstate and some data which should then be hashed.

I wonder, whether there are any testvectors out there, that is I need input the midstate plus data, and see then whether my implementation finds the appropriate nonce that is also supplied with the testvectors.

Many thanks for your help, Patrick

Patrick

Posted 2012-11-08T15:22:27.933

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New implementation, cool! CPU/GPU? Why don't you test it on a real pool? – d33tah – 2012-11-08T18:44:35.860

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The block headers in the blockchain are your test vectors, they already contain the appropriate nonce. Midstate can be computed from these headers, mining software does such a midstate computation (so crib this bit from their source code).

Anonymous

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