For Asic — Firmware

The real work was the core algorithm: the double SHA-256 pipeline. The reference firmware was clean, elegant, even beautiful. It processed 64-byte blocks with Swiss-clock precision. But it was slow. Elena hated slow.

But firmware is a jealous god. It demands sacrifice. firmware for asic

Fixing it meant rewriting the memory controller’s finite state machine. In firmware. At the gateware level. The real work was the core algorithm: the