implementation of rand()

Question

I am writing some embedded code in C and need to use the rand() function. Unfortunately, rand() is not supported in the library for the controller. I need a simple implementation that is fast, but more importantly has little space overhead, that produces relatively high-quality random numbers. Does anyone know which algorithm to use or sample code?

EDIT: It's for image processing, so "relatively high quality" means decent cycle length and good uniform properties.