[sdiy] analog loses another niche

[Tim Ressel]

Don't worry.. the $5000 speaker wire crowd will insist the digital noise doesn't sound as good as the noise from a 2N2712, preferably made pre-'77and during a full moon.

--tr




----- Original Message ----
From: René Schmitz <uzs159 at uni-bonn.de>
To: Tom Corbitt <tom.corbitt at gmail.com>
Cc: Synth DIY <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wed, June 30, 2010 1:46:37 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] analog loses another niche

Tom Corbitt schrieb:
> http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/intel-makes-a-digital-coin-tosser-for-future-processors
> 
> ”Historically, RNGs have been analog,” says Greg Taylor, director of
> the Circuit Research Lab. ”But porting to smaller technology nodes
> [with analog devices] requires a lot of fine-tuning that is
> unnecessary with digital versions.”
> 
> Be interesting to see how they rigged the metastability to be a 50/50 shot.

Doesn't this boil down to jitter or noise in the end?!

Cheers,
René

-- uzs159 at uni-bonn.de
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs159
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