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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
May. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jason Seung-Min Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
PortalPlayer, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/02 ;
Abstract
A random number generation system and method use the randomness in hardware circuitry start-up to generate a random seed for a random number. In a preferred embodiment, the instability of a phase locked loop is used.