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The TRNG consists of a chain with three main subsystems
* Entropy generation
-* Entropy accumulation (mixer)
+* Entropy mixing
* Random generation
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-### Entropy accumulation ###
+### Entropy mixing ###
-The entropy acculumation subsystems reads 32-bit words from the entropy
-generators.
+The entropy mixer subsystems reads 32-bit words from the entropy
+generators to build a block of bits to be mixed.
When 1024 bits of mixed entropy has been collected the entropy is used
as a message block which is fed into a hash function.
@@ -135,6 +135,15 @@ other entropy source(s) to be connected on external ports. It is up to
the user/system implementer to provide physical entropy souces. We will
suggest and provide info on how to design at least one such source.
+For simulation there are simplistic fake entropy sources that can be
+found in the tb/fake_modules directory. This modules SHOULD NOT be used
+as real sources.
+
+For synthesis there are wrappers for the real entropy source cores to
+adapt their interfaces to what we need in the trng. These wrappers
+should not be included during simulation.
+
+
## API ##