A scalable platform for intrinsic hardware and in materio evolution

Author

Harding, Simon ; Miller, Julian Francis

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Birmingham, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 July 2003

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

224

Abstract

An evolvable motherboard is an intrinsic evolution platform that allows the detailed probing of internal signals of circuits that have been evolved. Several designs for an evolvable motherboard have already been demonstrated to work successfully as a platform for the evolution of electronic circuits. This paper proposes a new platform that is suitable for intrinsic evolution using a wider variety of media. The platform presents a more modular design, making it suitable for use in evolving more complex physical primitives whilst affording the possibility of performing evolution in parallel for simpler problems. The construction of the device is discussed and examples of potential experiments in silicon, liquid crystal and other media are described.

Keywords

evolutionary computation; field programmable gate arrays; hardware-software codesign; modules; parallel architectures; reconfigurable architectures; circuit signal probing; evolutionary algorithm; evolvable hardware; evolvable motherboard; field programmable matter array; intrinsic evolution platform; intrinsic hardware; liquid crystal; modular design; parallel evolution; physical primitive; scalable platform; silicon; system design; Chemical technology; Computer science; Electronic circuits; Field programmable analog arrays; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Liquid crystal devices; Physics; Proteins; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolvable Hardware, 2003. Proceedings. NASA/DoD Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1977-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EH.2003.1217669

Filename

1217669