Evolution of Analog Circuits on Field Programmable Transistor Arrays

Evolvable Hardware (EHW) refers to HW design and selfreconfiguration using evolutionary/genetic mechanisms. The paper presents an overview of some key concepts of EHW, describing also a set of selected applications. A finegrained Field Programmable Transistor Array (FPTA) architecture for reconfigurable hardware is presented as an example of an initial effort toward evolution-oriented devices. Evolutionary experiments in simulations and with a FPTA chip in-the-loop demonstrate automatic synthesis of electronic circuits. Unconventional circuits, for which there are no textbook design guidelines, are particularly appealing to evolvable hardware. To illustrate this situation, one demonstrates here the evolution of circuits implementing parametrical connectives for fuzzy logics. In addition to synthesizing circuits for new functions, evolvable hardware can be used to preserve existing functions and achieve fault-tolerance, determining circuit configurations that circumvent the faults. In ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: EH
• Authors: Adrian Stoica, Didier Keymeulen, Ricardo Salem Zebulum, Anilkumar Thakoor, Taher Daud, Gerhard Klimeck, Y. Jin, Raoul Tawel, Vu Duong
• Keywords: Demonstrate Automatic Synthesis, EH 2000, Evolvable Hardware, Field Programmable Transistor, Hardware