First computer with real-time clock?

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Mon Aug 2 08:22:57 CDT 2004


>>>>> "William" == William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> writes:

 William> I know that AT&T once marketted a true random bitstream chip
 William> using a bunch of unstable oscillators.

The better Ethernet chips do likewise.  Designing such a thing is
*not* easy, especially if most of your ASIC design experience involves
thinking about circuits as being digital (rather than analog, as they
all are once you dig deep enough).

    paul




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