Pseudorandom Number Generator. Program-controlled Source of Three 15-bit Random-number Words per Microsecond for AP-120B Array Processors.

Abstract

The objective of this project was to provide AP-120B array processors with a program-controlled source of 15-bit random-number words at the rate of three per microsecond. A simple TTL circuit was implemetned to do this. The implementation and testing of a fast algorithm to generate uniformly distributed random numbers is described. The same shift-register method can be expanded to include a fast RAM memory that will provide random numbers of any given distribution without slowing the controlling array-processor program. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA056793

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People

  • W. G. Lafond

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Circuits
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Design Criteria
  • Generators
  • Host Computers
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Microsecond Time
  • Noise Generators
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Random Number Generators
  • Random Variables
  • Sequences
  • Shift Registers
  • Simulations

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  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.