Reconfigurable circuits alternatively acting as Random Number Generators (RNGs) or Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) represent a promising approach to true random bit generation since they can provide high quality random values almost for free whenever a system already embeds an ADC. In their usage, one needs to consider that entering the RNG-mode requires some minor interruption of operation, since the internal chaos-based random source gets initialised at the last ADC input. Hence, the first generated values maintain some dependence on a potentially known value and a few dead beats are needed by the chaotic system to reach a regime where this correlation vanishes. This delay has so far been quantified only empirically. Here, a formal bound is provided, with relation to the required performance level and the system noise floor.

On the Convergence to Regime of ADC-based True Random Number Generators

SETTI, Gianluca
2007

Abstract

Reconfigurable circuits alternatively acting as Random Number Generators (RNGs) or Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) represent a promising approach to true random bit generation since they can provide high quality random values almost for free whenever a system already embeds an ADC. In their usage, one needs to consider that entering the RNG-mode requires some minor interruption of operation, since the internal chaos-based random source gets initialised at the last ADC input. Hence, the first generated values maintain some dependence on a potentially known value and a few dead beats are needed by the chaotic system to reach a regime where this correlation vanishes. This delay has so far been quantified only empirically. Here, a formal bound is provided, with relation to the required performance level and the system noise floor.
2007
1424413427
9781424413423
ADC; Random Number Generation
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