RE: [sv-ec] C Implementation for random number generator


Subject: RE: [sv-ec] C Implementation for random number generator
From: David W. Smith (david.smith@synopsys.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 16:18:26 PST


You highlight one of the reasons why standardization of a Random Number
generator has been resisted by the EDA vendors in Verilog. There are many to
choose from.

Regards
David

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
Williams
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:32 PM
To: David W. Smith
Cc: sv-ec@eda.org
Subject: Re: [sv-ec] C Implementation for random number generator

david.smith@synopsys.com said:
> As the chair for the SV-EC I request that Synopsys make a donation of
> the C implementation of $srandom and $urandom. This was voted on in
> today's meeting and the committee voted to request this
> implementation.

I don't suppose it would be plausible to consider the Mersenne Twister
random number generator? It's a high quality PRNG specifically intended for
simulation/modeling use, and the implementations are portable and fast.

    <http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html>

Just a thought.

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