At 09:57 PM 8/16/01 -0400, Tony Pan wrote:
>The possibility is there. That's why we want to have a good "random" number
>so that the starting time can be distributed as widely as possible within a
>certain window to reduce the possibility.
>
>There is no way we can stagger the starting time for the boards have no
>communications among themselves.

By definition, microcontrollers can't do anything "random".

You might be better off, installing controls on the power lines, so that
you can handle this deterministically, and you aren't burdening the product
with anything that it dosen't need in real life.

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