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They could have made the chip a lot smaller (= cheaper to produce). For the period they actually achieved, they could have gotten away with a 16-bit LFSR, requ
by colanderman 10y ago
They could have made the chip a lot smaller (= cheaper to produce). For the period they actually achieved, they could have gotten away with a 16-bit LFSR, requiring half the die area for that function (which looks like it was quite significant).
- crb3 10y ago16 isn't a good size according to the Rosenberg paper (http://www.cs.miami.edu/~burt/learning/Csc609.022/random_numbers.html http://www.cs.miami.edu/~burt/learning/Csc609.022/random_num...) but 15 and 17 are sizes you could program an ATtiny45 to generate if you just wanted that quality of noise. I'm going to be real interested in trying out the actual noise-generator logic in the follow-up article to see if I can hear any useful tonal difference. Maybe they were just frustrated by hardware that kept drifting into the forbidden state and brute-forced it until it couldn't; I've had that happen with PRNGs I built with series-4000 CMOS logic and xgates. Stay tuned, I guess.