• DocumentCode
    1803735
  • Title

    Developmental processes in silicon: an engineering perspective

  • Author

    Tempesti, Gianluca ; Mange, Daniel ; Petraglio, Enrico ; Stauffer, André ; Thoma, Yann

  • Author_Institution
    Logic Syst. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    9-11 July 2003
  • Firstpage
    255
  • Lastpage
    264
  • Abstract
    In this article, we analyze the requirements of developmental processes from the perspective of their implementation in digital hardware. After recalling the motivations for such an implementation, we concentrate separately on the two mechanisms (cellular division and cellular differentiation) that are exploited by biological systems to realize development. We then describe some of the current and projected solutions to implement such mechanisms in hardware, and conclude by analyzing the most interesting features of developmental approaches.
  • Keywords
    cellular automata; genetic algorithms; integrated circuit design; reconfigurable architectures; silicon; cellular differentiation; cellular division; digital hardware; electronic circuit design; hardware implementation; massive parallelism; multicellular organization; requirement analysis; silicon based system; Adaptive systems; Bioinformatics; Chemistry; Electronic circuits; Genomics; Hardware; Organisms; Physics; Silicon; Space technology;
  • 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.2003.1217677
  • Filename
    1217677