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ERSA
2009
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13 years 2 months ago
Hardware-Optimized Ziggurat Algorithm for High-Speed Gaussian Random Number Generators
Many scientific and engineering applications, which are increasingly being ported from software to reconfigurable platforms, require Gaussian-distributed random numbers. Thus, the...
Hassan Edrees, Brian Cheung, McCullen Sandora, Dav...
IJCCBS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
A meta-level true random number generator
: True random number generators (TRNGs) are extensively used in cryptography, simulations and statistics. In this work, we introduce, extend and analyse the concept of the randomis...
Bernhard Fechner, Andre Osterloh
ICVGIP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Fast, Processor-Cardinality Agnostic PRNG with a Tracking Application
As vision algorithms mature with increasing inspiration from the learning community, statistically independent pseudo random number generation (PRNG) becomes increasingly importan...
Andrew Janowczyk, Sharat Chandran, Srinivas Aluru
FPGA
2008
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
A hardware framework for the fast generation of multiple long-period random number streams
Stochastic simulations and other scientific applications that depend on random numbers are increasingly implemented in a parallelized manner in programmable logic. High-quality ps...
Ishaan L. Dalal, Deian Stefan
MMB
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Reducing the Cost of Generating APH-Distributed Random Numbers
Phase-type (PH) distributions are proven to be very powerful tools in modelling and analysis of a wide range of phenomena in computer systems. The use of these distributions in sim...
Philipp Reinecke, Miklós Telek, Katinka Wol...
FPGA
2004
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
An embedded true random number generator for FPGAs
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an increasingly popular choice of platform for the implementation of cryptographic systems. Until recently, designers using FPGAs had le...
Paul Kohlbrenner, Kris Gaj
CHES
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Design of Testable Random Bit Generators
Abstract. In this paper, the evaluation of random bit generators for security applications is discussed and the concept of stateless generator is introduced. It is shown how, for t...
Marco Bucci, Raimondo Luzzi
FSE
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Bad and Good Ways of Post-processing Biased Physical Random Numbers
Algorithmic post-processing is used to overcome statistical deficiencies of physical random number generators. We show that the quasigroup based approach for post-processing rando...
Markus Dichtl
DEPCOS
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A True Random Number Generator with Built-in Attack Detection
True random number generators (TRNGs) are extensively used in cryptography, simulations and statistics. Metastability is a way to generate true random numbers. By using electromag...
Bernhard Fechner, Andre Osterloh
CEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improved Particle Swarm Optimization with low-discrepancy sequences
— Quasirandom or low discrepancy sequences, such as the Van der Corput, Sobol, Faure, Halton (named after their inventors) etc. are less random than a pseudorandom number sequenc...
Millie Pant, Radha Thangaraj, Crina Grosan, Ajith ...