PRBS on Bald Engineerhttps://www.baldengineer.com/tag/prbsRecent content in PRBS on Bald EngineerHugoen-USTue, 24 Mar 2015 15:31:36 +0000EW: True Random Numbers from a handful of gateshttps://www.baldengineer.com/ew-true-random-numbers-from-a-handful-of-gates.htmlWed, 22 Sep 2010 02:54:27 +0000https://www.baldengineer.com/blog/2010/09/21/ew-true-random-numbers-from-a-handful-of-gates/Random numbers are a relative concept. In general, random numbers used in digital electronics are called Psuedo-Random sequences. There is a defined algorithm that is used to generate the sequence and does not actually occur in nature. In applications like Flashing a LED, this method is fine. However, for any level of encryption this is unacceptable. Steve Buch at Electronics Weekly writes about how researchers Dr. Marie O’Neill and Dr. Jiang Wu at the University’s Institute of Electronics and Communications Information Technology (ECIT) has developed methods to generate true random bits digitally.