Reducing hardware evolution's dependency on FPGAs
- 20 January 2003
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
The field of intrinsic hardware evolution currently relies heavily on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices. Many types are available commercially, however most are unsuitable for hardware evolution since they take too long to reconfigure. This paper explores various alternative forms of evolvable media and re-addresses circumstances for which extrinsic hardware evolution may be appropriate. In particular, a general-purpose evolvable testbed is presented together with results exemplifying its use for three different test cases, and a direct comparison is made using the testbed of the relative merits of extrinsic versus intrinsic hardware evolution.Keywords
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- Analysis of unconventional evolved electronicsCommunications of the ACM, 1999
- Hardware evolution with a massively parallel dynamicaly reconfigurable computer: POLYPPublished by Springer Nature ,1998
- Feasible evolutionary and self-repairing hardware by means of the dynamic reconfiguration capabilities of the FIPSOC devicesPublished by Springer Nature ,1998
- The “modeling clay” approach to bio-inspired electronic hardwarePublished by Springer Nature ,1998
- Evolvable hardware for space applicationsPublished by Springer Nature ,1998
- Evolvable Systems: From Biology to HardwarePublished by Springer Nature ,1998
- Evolving inherently fault-tolerant systemsProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 1997
- Through the labyrinth evolution finds a way: A silicon ridgePublished by Springer Nature ,1997
- Evolvable systems in hardware design: Taxonomy, survey and applicationsPublished by Springer Nature ,1997
- Field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuitsPublished by Springer Nature ,1996