Hardware acceleration of pseudo-random number generation for simulation applications

Proceedings of the Annual Southeastern Symposium on System Theory

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 299-303

  McCollum, J M ^a   Lancaster, J M ^a   Bouldin, D W ^a   Peterson, G D ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Application software; Chemicals; Discrete event simulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Monte Carlo methods; Probability distribution; Random number generation; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CHEMICALS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; LOGIC GATES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM THEORY;

CHEMICAL SPECIES; FIXED POINT METHODS; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; MODELING AND SIMULATION TOOLS; NUMBER OF GATES; PSEUDO RANDOM NUMBER GENERATIONS; SIMULATION APPLICATIONS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATORS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 84945181950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSST.2003.1194578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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