Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has been proposed as a new method for designing systems for real-world applications. This paper contains a classification of the published work on this topic. Further, a thorough discussion about the limitations of the present EHW and possible solutions to these are proposed. EHW has been applied to a wide range of applications. However, to solve more complex applicatio...

Adrian Stoica, “Toward Evolvable Hardware Chips: Experiments with a Programmable Transistor Array,” IEEE, Apr. 1999, pp. 1-7.* Zebulum et al, “Eiolvable Hardware: on the Automatic Synthesis of Analog Control Systems,” IEEE, Mar. 2000, pp. 451-463.* August0 et al, “Analog Fault Diagnostic in Nonlinear DC Circuits with an Evolutionaly Algorithm,” IEEE, Jul. 2000, pp. 609-616.* Stoica et al, “Evol...

Recently there has been a great interest in the design and study of evolvable systems based on Arti cial Life principles in order to control the behavior of physically embedded systems such as a mobile robot. This paper studies an evolutionary navigation system for a mobile robot using a Boolean function approach implemented on gatelevel evolvable hardware (EHW). The task of the mobile robot is...

To conquer the scalability issue of evolvable hardware, this paper proposes a multi-virtual reconfigurable circuit (VRC) cores-based evolvable system to evolve combinational logic circuits in parallel. The basic idea behind the proposed scheme is to divide a combinational logic circuit into several subcircuits, and each of them is evolved independently as a subcomponent by its corresponding VRC...

The evolution of logic circuits, which falls under the heading of evolvable hardware, is carried out by evolutionary algorithms. These algorithms are able to automatically configure reconfigurable devices. One of main difficulties in developing evolvable hardware with the ability to design functional electrical circuits is to choose the most favourable EA features such as fitness function, chro...

The evolution of logic circuits, which falls under the heading of evolvable hardware, is carried out by evolutionary algorithms. These algorithms are able to automatically configure reconfigurable devices. One of main difficulties in developing evolvable hardware with the ability to design functional electrical circuits is to choose the most favourable EA features such as fitness function, chro...

Evolvable Hardware (EHW) is a scheme inspired by natural evolution, for automatic design of hardware systems. By exploring a large design search space, EHW may find solutions for a task, unsolvable, or more optimal than those found using traditional design methods. During evolution it is necessary to evaluate a large number of different circuits which is normally most efficiently undertaken in ...

Electronic circuit production is a significant industry. Ever more complex behaviors are being demanded from electronic circuits, fuelled by relentless improvements in circuit embodiment technologies. Consequently a bottleneck is developing at the point of circuit design. Traditional circuit design methodologies rely on rules that have been developed over many decades. However the need for huma...

Network routing platforms and Internet firewalls of the next decade will be radically different than the platforms of today. They will contain modular components that can be dynamically reconfigured over the Internet. But, unlike the active networks that are in the research labs today, these new platforms will not suffer from the performance penalty of processing packets in software. These plat...