Evolved Fault Tolerance in Evolvable Hardware
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This paper considers the ability of an evolved circuit to acquire fault tolerance by including fault conditions within the fitness measure of the evolutionary process. A simple oscillator circuit, implemented on a Xilinx FPGA, showed a 12 fold increase in fault-tolerance when compared to a control oscillator using realistic faults.
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