Re: [oc] Again! modulo arithmetic hardware

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan@optushome.com.au>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:33:11AM +0100, Marko Mlinar wrote:
> 
> I like the solution!
> 
> maybe it would be easier to implement it like this:
> 
> static int temp = 0;
> int random ()
> {
>   int x = rand16() + temp;
>   if (x >= 10) x -= 10;
>   if (x >= 10) x -= 10;
>   return temp = x;
> }
> 
> Is this distribution still flat and random?

only if the range of x[in] is an  multiple of 10. not true 
in general for prbs which are often 2^^n - 1 states long. 

I thuought this was a hardware list. what kind of speed bounded 
rtl is this?
john


> 
> Marko
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