If you want to start an argument at a Hackaday meeting, you have only to ask something like “How much does this weigh?” or “What time is it?” But if you really want to start a street brawl, you can ...

Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out that computers are so good at following our exacting instructions that they are largely incapable of doing anything ...

Editors Note: The first in a three-part introduction to Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs), this article is abstracted from the book Bebop to the Boolean Boogie (An Unconventional Guide to ...

The taps are identical for both XOR-based and XNOR-based LSFRs, although the resulting sequences are different. Multiple alternative tap combinations can also yield maximum-length LFSRs. For example, ...

In this paper, the authors propose a 32 bit linear feedback shift register which generates pseudo-random test patterns as the input bit is a linear function of its previous state. The total number of ...

Shift registers longer than eight bits can be implemented most efficiently using linear feedback. Shift-Register (LFSR) counters to address the RAM makes the design even simpler. This application note ...

A technical paper titled “A Novel Clock Gating Approach for the Design of Low-Power Linear Feedback Shift Registers” was published by researchers at Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy. “This ...

De Bruijn sequences are cyclic strings of length k^n over an alphabet of size k in which every possible substring of length n appears exactly once. Their generation has become a cornerstone of ...