A Population-oriented Architecture for Particle Swarms

Self-adaptive autonomous hardware systems require on-chip heuristics to generate the circuit that constitutes the desired solution. In this paper, we present a population-oriented hardware architecture for particle swarm optimization with discrete recombination (PSO-DR), a hardware-friendly particle swarm that has shown to perform better than the standard PSO for certain parameter values and test functions. We present simulation and synthesis results showing the feasibility, performance, and advantages of the proposed architecture.