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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Evolvable Hardware, 2003. Proceedings. NASA/DoD Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1977-6
DOI :
10.1109/EH.2003.1217677
