Clarify _mm_stream_si128

fulldecent · Mar 1, 2016 · b09a87a · b09a87a
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@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ The actual emissions are caused by the `_mm_stream_si128` instruction that write
 
 > Guri, M., Kachlon, A., Hasson, O., Kedma, G., Mirsky, Y. and Elovici, Y., 2015. GSMem: data exfiltration from air-gapped computers over GSM frequencies. In 24th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 15) (pp. 849-864).
 
+Please note that replacing `_mm_stream_si128` with a simple `x++;` will work too. My experience has been that  `_mm_stream_si128` produces a stronger signal. There may be other ideas that work even better, and it would be nice to improve this to be more portable (not require SSE extensions).
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 The program uses square wave modulation, which is depicted below:
 
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