Evolution on a chip: evolvable hardware aims to optimize circuit design

Author

Forbes, Nancy

Volume

3

Issue

3

fYear

2001

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

10

Abstract

A group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are studying nature´s ability to create living systems that can produce energy, process information, self-replicate, self-repair, function with defects, adapt to their surroundings and improve the species over time through evolution. The group is looking at these natural processes in order to translate their underlying principles into the language of information technology - specifically, those aspects that bear on circuit design. Configurable hardware will be the catalyst that ultimately enables the future of information processing systems.

Keywords

circuit optimisation; evolutionary computation; microprocessor chips; reconfigurable architectures; adaptable systems; circuit design; configurable hardware; evolvable hardware; fault tolerance; hardware improvement; information processing systems; information technology; natural processes; optimized circuit design; self-repair; self-replication; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Computational modeling; Computer aided manufacturing; Design optimization; Field programmable gate arrays; Genetic algorithms; Hardware; Logic devices; Reconfigurable logic;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5992.919259

Filename

919259