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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. Regards15 Replies
Altera_Forum--- Quote Start --- Tricky: good point, i was thinking of pseudo-white noise as having a normal distribution, though i haven't checked. --- Quote End --- 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.- Altera_Forum
Tricky: good point, i was thinking of pseudo-white noise as having a normal distribution, though i haven't checked.
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If you are interested in LFSR automatic generated code, you could try this link to have a look :
http://www.jnicolle.com/?page=lfsr - Altera_Forum--- Quote Start --- you can use an LFSR. its easy to code looking at a diagram (try Wikipedia). --- Quote End --- But can you make these easily Normally distributed (ie. bell curve with high probability around the centre of the range)?
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you can use an LFSR. its easy to code looking at a diagram (try Wikipedia).
