[sdiy] analog loses another niche

[René Schmitz]

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

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