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Adaptive and evolvable hardware and systems: the state of the art and the prospectus for future development
Evolvable Hardware, Evolutionary Design, Reconfigurable Hardware, Field
Programmable Analogue Arrays
This paper is an overview on the Evolvable Hardware (EHW) - the exciting and
rapidly expanding industrial application area of the Evolutionary Computing (EC),
of the Genetic Algorithms especially. The content of the work has the following
structure: the first part includes generalities on industrial applications of EC,
and the importance of EHW in this frame; the second part presents the outstanding
technological support making possible the implementation of system adaptation in
hardware. Different kind of programmable circuits arrays are introduced. The
third part tackles the most known EC based methods for EHW implementation; the
fourth part deals with some concrete elements of the EHW design, including the
current limits in evolutionary design of digital circuits. The last part is
focused on some concluding remarks with regard to future perspectives of the
area. A list of references used in this work was inserted at the end.
@article{BUT49313,
author="Mircea {Negoita} and Lukáš {Sekanina} and Adrian {Stoica}",
title="Adaptive and evolvable hardware and systems: the state of the art and the prospectus for future development",
journal="Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems",
year="2009",
volume="3",
number="2",
pages="70--75",
issn="1897-8649"
}