Simple Pseudo Random Number Generator with complete sequence

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Fra93

Joined Apr 22, 2020
5
I would like to present a personal invention of mine.

It is a circuit that can produce a pseudo-random sequence with a period of 2^n numbers, where n is the numbers of registers.
The general and low resource approach to produce a pseudo-random sequence in hardware is to use Fibonacci or Galois linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) but the period of the generated random sequence is limited to 2^n - 1 numbers.

Furthermore, with this new methodology there are more circuit types that produce a complete sequence, therefore, it is more resistant to mathematical attacks.

Here it is a link to the blog post:
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Here to links to the code if someone wants to try it out:

I will post in the future the circuit with multiple bit lengths ( from 3 to 16 bits ).
Any feedback is really appreciated.

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Fra93

Joined Apr 22, 2020
5
The main advantages are:
  • The produced sequence it is one number longer, and therefore complete.
  • The number of minimal polinomials for a given bit length in LFSR is smaller than the number of possible xor gate connection permutations in the parallel plane. Therefore, more mathematically secure.
  • You can optimize the transfer function reducing the number of bit shifts in the sequence.

I give concrete examples of all those points in my personal fdblog. With related code examples.

The circuit can be implemented in whatever programming language or hardware description language.
Probably I can give a C code example ( 16 bits ) in the future, like the Wikipedia page for LFSR.
 
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Fra93

Joined Apr 22, 2020
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I have no problems in sharing the code.
I want it to reach as many people as possible.

Attached you can find what I already done. But many updates will come.

If there are better methods for sharing the code please let me know.
 

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jpanhalt

Joined Jan 18, 2008
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You can simply post your code here as text. If you use code tags, e.g., [code] <insert code> [/code]
you can post inline.

I doubt few people will wade though a zipped file with links to your blog.
 

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Fra93

Joined Apr 22, 2020
5
I just downloaded all the project I have to gitlab as a zip file.

I want to point out that links to things I intend to maintain ( the RTL project as well as the blog ) with news related to the topic might be useful for somebody.

I post the RTL code as you suggest below.

Code:
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module dff
(
   input d,
   input ck,
   input rst,
   output q
 
);
    reg state;
 
    assign q = state;
 
    always @ (posedge ck or posedge rst )
    begin
        if (rst)
            state <= 'h0;
        else
            state <= d;
    end
 
endmodule

module nlprg8 (
  input ck,
  input rst,
  output o0,
  output o1,
  output o2,
  output o3,
  output o4,
  output o5,
  output o6,
  output o7
);
  wire s0;
  wire o0_temp;
  wire s1;
  wire o2_temp;
  wire s2;
  wire o1_temp;
  wire s3;
  wire o3_temp;
  wire o4_temp;
  wire o5_temp;
  wire o6_temp;
  wire o7_temp;
 
  dff dff0 (
    .d( s0 ),
    .ck( ck ),
    .rst( rst ),
    .q( o0_temp )
  );
 
  dff dff1 (
    .d( s1 ),
    .ck( ck ),
    .rst( rst ),
    .q( o2_temp )
  );
 
  dff dff2 (
    .d( s2 ),
    .ck( ck ),
    .rst( rst ),
    .q( o1_temp )
  );
 
  dff dff3 (
    .d( s3 ),
    .ck( ck ),
    .rst( rst ),
    .q( o3_temp )
  );
 
  dff dff4 (
    .d( o4_temp ),
    .ck( ck ),
    .rst( rst ),
    .q( o5_temp )
  );
 
  dff dff5 (
    .d( o3_temp ),
    .ck( ck ),
    .rst( rst ),
    .q( o4_temp )
  );
 
  dff dff6 (
    .d( o5_temp ),
    .ck( ck ),
    .rst( rst ),
    .q( o6_temp )
  );
 
  dff dff7 (
    .d( o6_temp ),
    .ck( ck ),
    .rst( rst ),
    .q( o7_temp )
  );
 
  assign s0 = (~ (o6_temp ^ o7_temp) ^ o3_temp);
  assign s1 = ~ (~ (o3_temp ^ o4_temp) ^ o1_temp);
  assign s2 = ~ (~ (o5_temp ^ o6_temp) ^ o0_temp);
  assign s3 = ((o5_temp ^ o2_temp) ^ (~ (o1_temp | o0_temp) & (((o7_temp & o6_temp) & (o5_temp & o4_temp)) & o3_temp)));
  assign o0 = o0_temp;
  assign o1 = o1_temp;
  assign o2 = o2_temp;
  assign o3 = o3_temp;
  assign o4 = o4_temp;
  assign o5 = o5_temp;
  assign o6 = o6_temp;
  assign o7 = o7_temp;
 
endmodule
 
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