Greenwood, Garrison W. / Tyrrell, Andrew M. Introduction to Evolvable Hardware A Practical Guide for Designing Self-Adaptive Systems IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence
1. Auflage - November 2006 83,90 Euro 2006. 208 Seiten, Hardcover ISBN-10: 0-471-71977-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-71977-9 - John Wiley & Sons
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Kurzbeschreibung Introduction to Evolvable Hardware: A Practical Guide for Designing Self-Adaptive Systems provides a fundamental introduction for engineers, designers, and managers involved in the development of adaptive, high reliability systems. It also introduces the concepts of evolvable hardware (EHW) to new researchers in a structured way.
Aus dem Inhalt PREFACE.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
ACRONYMS.
1 INTRODUCTION.
1.1 Characteristics of Evolvable Circuits and Systems.
1.2 Why Evolvable Hardware Is Good (and Bad!).
1.3 Technology.
1.4 Evolvable Hardware vs. Evolved Hardware.
1.5 Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Evolution.
1.6 Online vs. Offline Evolution.
1.7 Evolvable Hardware Applications.
References.
2 FUNDAMENTALS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION.
2.1 What Is an EA?
2.2 Components of an EA.
2.2.1 Representation.
2.2.2 Variation.
2.2.3 Evaluation.
2.2.4 Selection.
2.2.5 Population.
2.2.6 Termination Criteria.
2.3 Getting the EA to Work.
2.4 Which EA Is Best?
References.
3 RECONFIGURABLE DIGITAL DEVICES.
3.1 Basic Architectures.
3.1.1 Programmable Logic Devices.
3.1.2 Field Programmable Gate Array.
3.2 Using Reconfigurable Hardware.
3.2.1 Design Phase.
3.2.2 Execution Phase.
3.3 Experimental Results.
3.4 Functional Overview of the POEtic Architecture.
3.4.1 Organic Subsystem.
3.4.2 Description of the Molecules.
3.4.3 Description of the Routing Layer.
3.4.4 Dynamic Routing.
3.5 Remarks.
References.
4 RECONFIGURABLE ANALOG DEVICES.
4.1 Basic Architectures.
4.2 Transistor Arrays.
4.2.1 The NASA FTPA.
4.2.2 The Heidelberg FPTA.
4.3 Analog Arrays.
4.4 Remarks.
References.
5 PUTTING EVOLVABLE HARDWARE TO USE.
5.1 Synthesis vs. Adaption.
5.2 Designing Self-Adaptive Systems.
5.2.1 Fault Tolerant Systems.
5.2.2 Real-Time Systems.
5.3 Creating Fault Tolerant Systems Using EHW.
5.4 Why Intrinsic Reconfiguration for Online Systems?
