Title :
A novel function-level EHW architecture within modern FPGAs
Author :
Clark, Gerald R.
Author_Institution :
California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
Most research conducted in the evolvable hardware EHW area has been done at the gate level. In order to synthesize larger circuits, a level of abstraction is needed. Functional evolvable hardware, FEHW was introduced to meet the researcher´s need for more capable circuits than those that could be represented at the gate level. It was concluded that specialized FPGAs were desirable when implementing FEHW. A new architecture has been introduced that performs FEHW using commercially available FPGAs. This architecture describes an evolutionary system completely contained within a single FPGA
Keywords :
evolutionary computation; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; FEHW; abstraction; commercially available FPGAs; evolutionary system; evolvable hardware EHW; function-level EHW architecture; functional evolvable hardware; modern FPGAs; specialized FPGAs; Biological cells; Boolean functions; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Logic arrays; Logic circuits; Microprocessors; Programmable logic arrays; Programmable logic devices; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 1999. CEC 99. Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5536-9
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.1999.782508
