Towards Evolvable Hardware: The Evolutionary Engineering Approach

Abstract

Field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuits.- Evolutionary algorithms.- Artificial cellular development in optimization and compilation.- CAM-Brain the evolutionary engineering of a billion neuron artificial brain by 2001 which grows/evolves at electronic speeds inside a cellular automata machine (CAM).- Morphogenesis for evolvable systems.- Evolvable Hardware and its application to pattern recognition and fault-tolerant systems.- Unconstrained evolution and hard consequences.- Embryonics: The birth of synthetic life.- Embryonics: A new family of coarse-grained field-programmable gate array with self-repair and self-reproducing properties.- Evolution and mobile autonomous robotics.- Development and evolution of hardware behaviors.