Hi Ok, how about a nice simple table? Something in the 500 to 4K entries shouldn't repeat often enough to be noticeable. Each entry probably can be a byte.
Bob On Feb 15, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Jim Lux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 2/15/13 4:52 AM, Bob Camp wrote: >> Hi >> >> How much horsepower do you have on the gizmo that's doing the generation? >> For instance, is this coming out of an MSP-430 or a Core I-7? >> >> Bob >> > > The mighty ArduinoUno... > But it only has to generate one number every second: i.e. I'm simulating > human heartbeats: I have a anthropomorphic dummy that has air bladders for > lungs and heart that we use to simulate a human for radar testing. The > Arduino just uses timers to open and close solenoid valves to create the > right frequency and amplitude of motion. Right now it has a somewhat > unrealistically uniform pulse rate. > > There's some faster cheap processors out there that I could drop in, as well: > teensy3 with the 48MHz Cortex is pretty powerful. > > > > >> On Feb 15, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Jim Lux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>> I need to generate a sequence of pulses at around 1 Hz with a 1/f >>> characteristic (human heartbeat, as it happens). I'd like to do this using >>> software and a timer, so I'm looking for a clever algorithm using a random >>> number generator to do it. >>> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
