Image filter evolution on the Xilinx Zynq Platform

The limitations of reconfigurable chips have always raised barriers for evolvable hardware. Zynq-7000 all programmable system-on-chip, the recent innovation in the reconfigurable field offers new possibilities for bypassing once again these barriers. In this paper, evolvable hardware implementations are considered on this new Zynq platform. The possibilities of the platform are demonstrated by evolutionary design of switching image filters. The investigated implementations include virtual reconfigurable circuits and the use of dynamic partial reconfiguration. The achieved results demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of the Zynq platform. The observations are intended to be useful for designers who are going to develop evolvable hardware on this new platform.