Self-replicating hardware for reliability: The embryonics project

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Tempesti, Gianluca ^a   Mange, Daniel ^b   Mudry, Pierre Andre ^b   Rossier, Joël ^b   Stauffer, Andre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bio inspired architectures; Embryonic electronics; Growth; Hierarchical fault tolerance; Self repair; Self replication

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED ARCHITECTURES; EMBRYONIC ELECTRONICS; HIERARCHICAL FAULT TOLERANCE; SELF-REPLICATION;

CELLS; FAULT TOLERANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RELIABILITY THEORY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 34547552766     PISSN: 15504832     EISSN: 15504840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1265949.1265955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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