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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2014
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Donald Preston Matthews, Jr., Longmont, CO (US);
Laszlo Hars, Lafayette, CO (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/588 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus can include at least one test circuit configured to determine if bits sampled at a sample frequency from at least one bit generator are random, and a circuit configured to adjust the sample frequency if the at least one test circuit determines that the sampled bits are not random. The apparatus can be a random number generator. A method may include sampling bits at a first sample frequency, and sampling bits at a second sample frequency if the sampled bits associated with the first sample frequency are not random.