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+Author: Joachim Strömbergson
+Copyright (c) 2014, SUNET
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+  list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
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+
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+novena_entropy
+==============
+This is an experimental HW system for the Novena platform.
+
+The purpose of the system is to debug, evaluate and qualify the
+avalanche Cryptech entropy providers for the Novena platform with the
+Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. The entropy providers being tested are the noise
+based entropy provider and the ring oscillator based entropy provider.
+
+The following cores are used in the system:
+  - core/coretest, the test command parser
+
+  - core/i2c, the serial interface that connects the system to the
+    Novena CPU.
+
+  - core/avalanche_entropy, the entropy provider that is driven by an
+    external noise source.
+
+  - core/rosc_entropy, the entropy provider driven by jitter between 32
+  independently running ring oscillators in the FPGA.
+
+Test SW is available in src/sw