Potomac Research LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A18-116
Potomac Research LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Amount
- $99,329
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A18-116
- Solicitation
- 18.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2018-10-12 → 2019-06-12
Description
Random number generation is a key technology underlying secure communications that has become increasingly important as the volume of sensitive data transmitted over high-speed networks—as well as awareness of its security and privacy implications–continues to grow. To achieve a software solution for true random number generation, we propose the Hybrid Boolean Network (HBN) which can be easily synthesized on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and has been shown to generate random bits that pass international tests of randomness at a rate of 100 Mbit/second. It typically uses only a tiny fraction of FPGA resources and can be easily parallelized and has been demonstrated to deliver 12.8 Gbit/sec of random numbers, continuously, by running 128 circuits in parallel.