On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Perry E. Metzger <pe...@piermont.com>wrote:
> The attraction of methods that use nothing but a handful of > transistors is that they can be fabricated on chip and thus have > nearly zero marginal cost. The huge disadvantage is that if your > opponent can convince chip manufacturers to introduce small changes > into their design, you're in trouble. It seems like Intel's approach of using thermal noise is fairly sound. Is there any reason why it isn't more widely adopted? Patents? http://electronicdesign.com/learning-resources/understanding-intels-ivy-bridge-random-number-generator -- Tony Arcieri
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