Title :
Evolvable hardware at function level
Author :
Higuchi, Tetsuya ; Murakawa, Masahiro ; Iwata, Masaya ; Kajitani, Isamu ; Liu, Weixin ; Salami, Mehrdad
Author_Institution :
Electrotech. Lab., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
This paper describes a new type of evolvable hardware (EHW). While most EHW research employs hardware evolution at the level of primitive gates (i.e. gate-level evolution), our alternative synthesizes hardware circuits with higher-level functions. We call this evolution “function-level evolution”. In this paper, two applications of function-level EHW are described. One is for adaptive equalization in digital mobile communication; the other is for lossy data compression
Keywords :
adaptive equalisers; data compression; digital communication; genetic algorithms; high level synthesis; losses; mobile communication; programmable logic devices; adaptive equalization; digital mobile communication; evolvable hardware; function-level evolution; hardware circuit synthesis; high-level functions; lossy data compression; Adaptive equalizers; Biological cells; Circuits; Computer architecture; Data compression; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Mobile communication; Programmable logic arrays; Programmable logic devices;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 1997., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Indianapolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3949-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICEC.1997.592293
