AVR-Chat

At 01:07 PM 9/03/2005, you wrote:

>I was looking at a case where the two devices are identical (same software,
>etc.) and share the data bus and reset signal - i.e.: they both have the same
>historic view of the world so would thus generate identical values unless you
>can use something like clock speed differences, etc. which we have discussed.

But of course no 2 devices on an RS485 networks are exactly the same :-)
each one has an UNIQUE ADDRESS and mixed with a free running timer
could generate random numbers which are different.

Regards

John Samperi

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