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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Generating normally distributed random numbers

Hi, Does anyone have any tips regarding how to generate normally distributed pseudo-random numbers in Verilog or VHDL? Any help would be most appreciated. Regards
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15 years ago

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you can use an LFSR. its easy to code looking at a diagram (try Wikipedia).

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But can you make these easily Normally distributed (ie. bell curve with high probability around the centre of the range)?