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- Subject: Re: white noise generator using pseudo-random series
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- This is a condensation of two threads on pseudo-random noise generators
- which appeared on the net back in 1990. Hope it will be of some help.
-
- Tom Wheless
- Hewlett-Packard
- Boise, Idaho
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- From chan@ames.arc.nasa.gov Tue Apr 17 14:32:10 1990
-
- Hi all,
- Haven't posted (or read) sci.electronics for a long time, so I apologize
- if this has been covered before...
-
- Does anyone have a reference and/or source for the pink noise chip that
- used to be around. If anyone can point to a good circuit or a cheap (<$50)
- product to generate PN, I would greatly appreciate it.
-
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- From chan@ames.arc.nasa.gov Thu Apr 19 14:16:20 1990
-
- Both people who responded my mail mentioned the National Semiconductor
- MM5837 digital noise generator, which has since been replaced by the
- MM5437. The 5437 has 23 shift registers versus 17 giving a cycle time
- of one minute versus about 2 seconds. From the spec sheet, it seems
- like a much improved. (Note: the LOWER number is the better performing
- one.)
-
- Both are 8 pin chips, but are not pin-compatible. On the internal clock,
- the new chip has a half power point between 30 and 140 kHz (min amd max)
- versus the old chip's 24 to 56 kHz half power point.
-
- One reason the chips are so hard to find out about is that the old chip
- appeared only in the 1984 Logic MOS/other Interface book and the new chip
- has not been published a databook yet. This is one that's hard to
- categorize and fell between printings...
-
- Two products have emerged; The PNG-One from Audio Source in Burlingame,
- and a $50 generator from Heathkit. Both seem to use the older National
- chip.
-
- Thanks for the pointers,
-
- Jeff C.
-
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-
- From eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu Sun Apr 22 12:42:45 1990
-
- I have a copy of the 1976 Audio Handbook from National Semiconductor. It
- shows a pink noise generator built around the MM5837 chip. There is a
- similar circuit in "The Art of Electronics," by Horowitz and Hill, 2nd ed.,
- using the MM5437 chip. Both of these chips are pseudorandom *white* noise
- sources. Additional frequency shaping components are used to get the 3 dB
- per octave pink noise characteristic.
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- From mark@mips.COM Sat Oct 7 08:46:35 1989
-
- In article <131@arinc.UUCP> tsp@arinc.UUCP (Tony S. Patti,4-100C,,,) writes:
- >... I would also be interested in compiling a list of random
- >(noise) sources even if no schematic was available.
- >
- >I am aware of only ONE article which details how to build a noise-based RNG:
- >
- > "Build a Noise-Based Random Number Generator" by Terry Mayhugh which
- > appeared in the May 1981 BYTE Magazine (pages 452-456).
- >
-
- A back issue of Audio Amateur magazine contains an article that may be of
- interest. 1985 #1, p. 17: "A Digital Noise Generator". Try (603) 924-6371;
- that's Old Colony Sound Labs, who carries back issues.
-
- The circuit uses four MM5837 chips. Each 5837 contains a CMOS 17-stage
- linear-feedback shift register running asynchronously (from its own
- internal R-C relaxation oscillator clock). The outputs of the four
- 5837 chips are analog-summed, to smooth out and schmear out the
- behavior of the individual 5837's.
-
- Of course, an eager experimenter could easily do a couple of stunts to
- further randomize and noise-ify the output noise:
-
- 1) Use 10 5837's instead of 4. Run them off different supply
- voltages and/or put a resistor directly on top of (some)
- 5837's to change their temperature. Different V+ voltages
- and temeperatures affects the clock periods of the individual
- oscillators, further uncorrelating their outputs.
-
- 2) At the analog summing point, add in the noise from a
- diode or two (using the Byte ckt or others)
- --
- -- Mark Johnson
- MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
- (408) 991-0208 mark@mips.com {or ...!decwrl!mips!mark}
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- From eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu Sat Oct 7 12:46:11 1989
-
- There is a good discussion of the basics of digital pseudo-random noise
- generators in chapter 9 of "The Art of Electronics," by Horowitz and Hill
- (I have the 1st edition, have not checked the new one).
-
- They include a complete schematic for an adjustable bandwidth p-r noise
- source, and claim that it is similar to the method used in the Hewlett
- Packard 3722A.
-
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- From kchen@Apple.COM Sat Oct 7 15:22:40 1989
-
-
- For the "bible" on PN Generators (PN = Pseudo-noise), take a look at
-
- Solomon W. Golomb, "Shift Register Sequences,"
- Holden Day, San Francisco. 1967.
-
- Sorry, no ISBN number on my copy of the book (preceeded the introduction
- of ISBNs :-).
-
- I have used this method to generate a noise comb for an antenna
- resistance noise-bridge pretty successfully, instead of using the
- standard zener knee method. The biggest advantages are 1) it generates
- a *huge* signal compared to the zener, and 2) a simple D.C. voltmeter
- [measuring the TTL voltage level at the load when the PN sequence is
- not running] is all it takes to get a very good estimate of the
- noise density. (Well, it takes a calculator too, because there is
- a sin(x)/x envelope :-) But, since it was for a home project, and I
- don't own an oscilloscope, this became the most convenient noise
- generator to build.
-
- Caveat: Take great care if you want to use this as a pseudo-random number
- generator for image dithering, for example. You have been warned :-).
-
-