Promises and challenges of evolvable hardware

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-97

  Yao, Xin ^a   Higuchi, Tetsuya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive hardware; Evolutionary algorithms; Evolutionary computation; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA's); Reconfigurable hardware

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746236412     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5326.740672     Document Type: Article

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