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It was common to use them as counters in early FPGAs such as XC2000 and XC3000. LFSRs where faster and smaller than binary counters since the early FPGAs did n
by jhallenworld 9y ago
It was common to use them as counters in early FPGAs such as XC2000 and XC3000. LFSRs where faster and smaller than binary counters since the early FPGAs did not have fast carry logic.
I used them for column, row and address generation in FPGA-based video capture and display cards.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoYou might find Linear Hybrid Cellular Automata (LHCA) interesting as well. They're similar to LFSRs, but with potentially better performance. http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~mserra/AttachedFiles/CA_Tutorial.pdf http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~mserra/AttachedFiles/CA_Tutorial....