Random numbers from metastability and thermal noise

Electronics Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 891-893

  Ranasinghe, D C ^a   Lim, D ^b   Devadas, S ^b   Abbott, D ^a   Cole, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; THERMAL NOISE;

LOW-COST DESIGN; METASTABILITY; MODELING APPLICATIONS; RANDOM NUMBERS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 23944498168     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20051559     Document Type: Article

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