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Towards Evolvable Systems Based on the Xilinx Zynq Platform
FPGA, evolvable hardware, reconfiguration, digital circuit, image filter, zynq
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are considered as a good platform for
digital evolvable hardware systems. Researchers introduced virtual reconfigurable
circuits as the response to the insufficient support of partial reconfiguration
in early FPGAs. Later, the features of FPGAs allowed the designers to develop
evolvable systems fully exploiting native reconfiguration infrastructures. Xilinx
recently introduced a new platform called Zynq-7000 all programmable (AP)
system-on-chip (SoC) which has the potential to become the next revolutionary
step in evolvable hardware design. The paper analyzes Zynq-7000 AP SoC from the
perspective of an evolvable hardware designer. Several scenarios are described of
how to implement evolvable systems on a developmental board equipped with this
programmable SoC. These scenarios are evaluated in terms of area overhead,
execution time, reconfiguration time and throughput. The resulting observations
should be useful for those who are going to develop real-world evolvable systems
on the Zynq-7000 AP SoC platform.
@inproceedings{BUT103436,
author="Roland {Dobai} and Lukáš {Sekanina}",
title="Towards Evolvable Systems Based on the Xilinx Zynq Platform",
booktitle="2013 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES)",
year="2013",
series="Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)",
pages="89--95",
publisher="IEEE Computational Intelligence Society",
address="Singapur",
doi="10.1109/ICES.2013.6613287",
isbn="978-1-4673-5869-9",
url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10194/"
}