Promises and challenges of evolvable hardware

Author

Yao, Xin ; Higuchi, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Comput. Intelligence Group, New South Wales Univ., Kensington, NSW, Australia

Volume

29

Issue

1

fYear

1999

fDate

2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

97

Abstract

Evolvable hardware (EHW) has attracted increasing attention since the early 1990s with the advent of easily reconfigurable hardware, such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). It promises to provide an entirely new approach to complex electronic circuit design and new adaptive hardware. EHW has been demonstrated to be able to perform a wide range of tasks, from pattern recognition to adaptive control. However, there are still many fundamental issues in EHW that remain open. This paper reviews the current status of EHW, discusses the promises and possible advantages of EHW, and indicates the challenges we must meet in order to develop practical and large-scale EHW

Keywords

adaptive systems; evolutionary computation; field programmable gate arrays; network synthesis; reconfigurable architectures; reviews; adaptive control; adaptive hardware; complex electronic circuit design; evolutionary algorithms; evolutionary computation; evolvable hardware; field programmable gate arrays; pattern recognition; reconfigurable hardware; review; Australia; Circuit simulation; Computer architecture; Electronic circuits; Evolutionary computation; Field programmable gate arrays; Genetic programming; Hardware; Pattern recognition; Programmable logic arrays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-6977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5326.740672

Filename

740672