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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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Tricky: good point, i was thinking of pseudo-white noise as having a normal distribution, though i haven't checked.

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a standard pseudo random number generator would have a flat distribution, with every number only appearing once in the sequence. You can try an make it appear more random by having more bits than you actually use, but after the entire sequence, every value appears the same number of times.