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20 years ago

Noise sources

Hi folks, i need to create some strong random numbers but for this i should have some noise sources on nios2. i could take the timer as the first source but that's not enough i think. P...
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20 years ago

If you are able to use custom electronics, there are proven physical methods. For instance, measure the voltage on a diode with a very accurate A2D and take the LSB as a source of random noise. It should be very simple to write a NIOS driver for the A2D.