Use of Diehard & Dieharder: How to format a suitable input for Diehard and Dieharder?

Dear all,

I am studying on testing PRNG and I have problem in using Diehard and Dieharder. This intruction in Diehard's document (Marsaglia) is not clear to me: _

Your random number generator should produce 32-bit integers.
(If 31 bits, left justify by shift-left-one, as some of the
tests in DIEHARD favor leading bits.)  You should send them to
your ascii file in hex form, 8 hex 'digits' per integer,
10 integers per line, no intervening spaces.  The ascii file
will be twice as big as the binary file it is reduced to._

In fact, I generated random number by using Matlab to implement some algorithm and also obtained the integer numbers. But I am not sure how to make a test file which is used as an input for Diehard or Dieharder. I hope to hear from you in detail about my problem.

Thank you,

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

fprintf(fid, [repmat('%08x', 1, 10), '\n'], YourVector)

[NGUYEN Duy Ngan]

By the way, could you tell me how many integer numbers which are suitable for Diehard tests? Thank you.

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~faggi101/labsci/site/asm_diehard.php

If you want to run all 15 Diehard tests at once, make sure your data files contain about 2.5 million numbers. They will be about 10 megabytes in size.

[NGUYEN Duy Ngan]

Thank you very much.