Is it time to stop evolving digital systems?

Author

Greenwood, Garrison W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Portland State Univ., Portland, OR

fYear

2009

fDate

April 30 2009-March 2 2009

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

58

Abstract

Evolving combinational and sequential logic circuit is still under investigation within the evolvable hardware community. This situation is somewhat surprising since the electronic design automation industry is mature and the tools in wide use today are incredibly powerful. It therefore makes sense to see how well evolvable hardware techniques compare against the existing design methods. That comparison is made in this paper and the conclusion is evolvable hardware techniques are woefully inadequate. However, there are areas where evolvable hardware techniques can have an impact in the IC design field and those areas are briefly discussed.

Keywords

logic circuits; logic design; IC design field; combinational logic circuit; evolvable hardware techniques; integrated circuit design; sequential logic circuit; Application specific integrated circuits; Design engineering; Design methodology; Digital systems; Electronic design automation and methodology; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware design languages; Logic circuits; Process design; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware, 2009. WEAH '09. IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Nashville, TN

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2755-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WEAH.2009.4925668

Filename

4925668