Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has the potential to become a new target hardware for complex real-world applications. However, there are several problems that would have to be solved to make it widely applicable. This includes the difficulties in evolving large systems and the lack of generalization of gate level EHW. This paper proposes new methods targeting these problems, where a system is evolved...

Vigraham, Saranyan . PhD., Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D Program, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, 2007 . An Analog Evolvable Hardware Device for Active Control. The field of Evolvable Hardware (EH) has recently gained a lot of interest due to the novel methodology it offers for designing electrical circuits and machines. EH techniques involve con...

Evolvable Hardware (EHW) is a new method for designing electronic circuits. However, there are several problems to solve for making high performance systems. One is the limited scalability of the ordinary approach. To reduce this problem, a novel digital signal classification architecture has been developed that allows for incremental evolution. This is based on initially evolving subcircuits f...

Evolvable hardware (EHW) has recently become a highly attractive topic of study because it offers a way of adapting hardware to a given embedded environment. However, it is not easy to evolve hardware efficiently and effectively, so many challenges continue to exist when trying to solve problems. In this paper, we propose a method that uses the speciation technique to enable diverse circuits to...

Evolvable hardware is a hardware that depends on evolutionary algorithms (EAs) for performing electrical circuit synthesis and evolving its electrical circuit architecture, furthermore it depends on EAs for making the necessary adaptations to this architecture while working on line. This paper presents a new approach for solving the electrical circuit synthesis problem using genetic algorithms ...

This paper describes the EHWPack development system, a tool that performs the evolutionary synthesis of electronic circuits, using the SPICE simulator and the Field Programmable Transistor Array hardware (FPTA) developed at JPL. EHWPack integrates free and commercial software packages such as PGAPack for the evolutionary algorithm, Spice for the circuit evaluation, Tcl-Tk for the graphic interf...

We propose the use of bottleneck networks implemented by evolvable hardware for the adaptive blind equalization of digital communication channels. Blind Channel equalization is a method of recovering the original symbols by compensating for channel distortion at the receiver's end without any known training sequence for the startup period. If the non-linear channel distortion is too severe to i...

At present, the main research in Evolvable Hardware (EHW) field is focused on the intrinsic evolution based on the virtual reconfigurable circuit. On the basis of previous researches, we take a further explore on designing a virtual reconfigurable architecture for intrinsic evolvable hardware, and propose a virtual circuit architecture based on Look-Up-Table, each evolution module of which can ...

In this chapter, we describe a scheme to realize an evolvable fuzzy hardware (EFH) for real-time packet switching problem. The common challenges of evolvable hardware (EHW) implementation are issues pertaining to online adaptation, scalability and termination of evolution. The proposed EFH addresses these issues effectively. A very interesting advantage of the proposed EFH is that the system pe...

In the recent years, Xilinx devices, like the XC6200, were the preferred solutions for evolving digital systems. In this paper, we present a new System-On-Chip, the POEtic chip, an alternative for evolvable hardware. This chip has been specifically designed to ease the implementation of bio-inspired systems. It is composed of a microprocessor, and a programmable part, containing basic elements,...