Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:47Very interesting!
There was a post on the Keil forum a while back about an efficient LFSR PRNG for the 8051:
http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread3202.asp
It also contains a link to a good article on the subject:
http://www.newwaveinstruments.com/resources/articles/m_sequence_linear_feedback_shift_register_lfsr.htm#Table of M-Sequence Feedback Taps
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