[sdiy] analog loses another niche

[Tom Corbitt]

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