Evolving hardware with self-reconfigurable connectivity in Xilinx FPGAs

Proceedings - First NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 153-160

  Upegui, Andres ^a   Sanchez, Eduarde ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING MACHINES; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; RANDOM BOOLEAN NETWORKS (RBN);

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 33845581014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AHS.2006.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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