A bird's eye view of FPGA-based Evolvable Hardware

Proceedings of the 2011 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 169-175

  Cancare, Fabio ^a   Bhandari, Sheetal ^b   Bartolini, Davide Basilio ^a   Carminati, Matteo ^a   Santambrogio, Marco Domenico ^a,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD'S EYE VIEW; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; EMBEDDED DESIGNS; EVOLVABLE HARDWARE; EVOLVABLE HARDWARE SYSTEM; RESEARCH AREAS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

HARDWARE;

EID: 80052127099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AHS.2011.5963932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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