DocumentCode
1746352
Title
The design of an evolvable coprocessor environment
Author
Abielmona, Rami ; Groza, Voicu
Author_Institution
Sch. of Inf. Technol. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
Volume
2
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
844
Abstract
In this paper we propose a design based on a genetic algorithm to evolve the logic circuit of a defined input function, in which we aim to minimize the total number of gates used. Our design is outlined and briefly discussed while our preliminary results are presented and analyzed
Keywords
circuit CAD; coprocessors; development systems; field programmable gate arrays; genetic algorithms; logic CAD; minimisation of switching nets; FPGA; evolvable coprocessor environment; hardware-implemented genetic algorithm; high-level architecture; logic circuit; Central Processing Unit; Coprocessors; Design engineering; Field programmable gate arrays; Genetic algorithms; Hardware; Information technology; Minimization; Programming profession; Silicon;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE
Conference_Location
Budapest
ISSN
1091-5281
Print_ISBN
0-7803-6646-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IMTC.2001.928196
Filename
928196
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