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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

modelling interarrival times

Hello, I am interested to model inter arrival times for my design based on exponential distribution. I first tried to write a simple model which given below. I have two clarification...
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14 years ago

Hi,

to generate arrival times with an exponential distribution, what I usually do is this:

delta_t = - log(u)/rate

where "u" is a uniform random value [0,1] and and delta_t is the interval between two events.