Promises and challenges of evolvable hardware

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1259, Issue , 1997, Pages 55-78

  Yao, Xin ^a   Higuchi, Tetsuya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; CURRENT STATUS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN; EVOLVABLE HARDWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC; NEW APPROACHES;

RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

EID: 84958636269     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63173-9_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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