[sdiy] analog loses another niche

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Tom Corbitt <tom.corbitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Tom "And I, for one, welcome our new randomly digital overlords" Corbitt

FYI, related circuit for a random bit generator and references:
http://web.jfet.org/hw-rng.html


Tim (random bits) Servo
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