Once again Kerry Wong has delved into the lower-level of our most powerful Arduino - the Due, and has explained the native true random number generator in the Due's Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU. The Arduino code required to enable the TRNG is quite simple, and the output can be signed or unsigned numbers centred around zero.
At first one would think that the generator isn't truly random, however Kerry's demonstration has shown that it works quite well and can be relied on, for example the following is a histogram of one million samples, that shows the even distribution:
All very interesting, and another reason to consider upgrading to a Due. For more information on the TRNG and other interesting articles, check out Kerry's detailed website. And for more, we're on facebook, Google+, and twitter - so follow us for news and product updates as well.
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