Pipelined CORDIC processors for generating Gaussian random numbers

This paper proposes a pipelined array for efficient generation of Gaussian random numbers. Since the direct conversion method is used instead of the c entral limit theorem method, the hardware generation requires only one pair of uniformly distributed sequence as its input. The proposed hardware can also be used to generate Rayleigh-distributed random numbers, (C) 1999 Else vier Science B.V. All rights reserved.