Evolving circuits in seconds: Experiments with a stand-alone board-level evolvable system

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 67-74

  Stoica, A ^a   Zebulum, R S ^a   Ferguson, M I ^a   Keymeulen, D ^a   Dong, Vu ^a   Guo, Xin ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Chromatech   (United States)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit stability; Circuit testing; Digital signal processing chips; Evolutionary computation; Field programmable analog arrays; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Supercomputers; Time factors

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HEALTH; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; TIMING CIRCUITS;

APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CIRCUIT STABILITY; CIRCUIT TESTING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING CHIPS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE ANALOG ARRAY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLES; HARDWARE; PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; TIME FACTORS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 84949208719     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2002.1029868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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