Issue No. 04 - April (1972 vol. 21)
ISSN: 0018-9340
pp: 346-352
John S. Sobolewski , Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Computing Center, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99163.
W. H. Payne , Department of Computer Science and the Computing Center, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99163.
ABSTRACT
A hardwired device that produces a voltage with arbitrary amplitude distribution was constructed using a conditional bit'' algorithm to sample from an arbitrary voltage amplitude distribution. The sampling algorithm and hardware processor are independent of the distribution sampled. Only a small read-only memory ROM needs to be changed to alter the distribution sampled. It is possible to compute the accuracy of the sampled random variables from knowledge of the read-only memory contents. The sampling accuracy of the device may be arbitrarily increased by varying any of several design parameters. Our particular pseudonoise generator produced 200 000 random seven-bit variables/s. Contents of read-only memories for both a Gaussian and an arbitrary density were computed so that the maximum error was less than 2.73 percent. Both the sampling speed and accuracy of a conditional bit pseudonoise generator can be increased much in excess of our implementation.
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CITATION
John S. Sobolewski, W. H. Payne, "Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution¿Part II: Hardware Implementation", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 21, no. , pp. 346-352, April 1972, doi:10.1109/TC.1972.5008974