Evolvable hardware (EHW) has attracted increasing attention since the early 1990s with the
advent of easily reconfigurable hardware, such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) …

Nature is phenomenal. The achievements in, for example, evolution are everywhere to be
seen: complexity, resilience, inventive solutions and beauty. Evolvable Hardware (EH) is a …

Reconfigurable Computing marks a revolutionary and hot topic that bridges the gap
between the separate worlds of hardware and software design—the key feature of …

A major theme in the field of artificial life (ALife) is the emergence of complex behavior fl'om
the interactions of simple elements. Natural life emerges out of the organized interactions of …

If one considers life on Earth since its very beginning, three levels of organization can be
distinguished: the phylogenetic level concerns the temporal evolution of the genetic …

Three hypotheses are formulated. First, in the" design space" of possible electronic circuits,
conventional design methods work within constrained regions, never considering most of …

A major problem in the evolutionary design of combinational circuits is the problem of scale.
This refers to the design of electronic circuits in which the number of gates required to …

Ever since his days as a cave-dweller, Man has been awe-stricken by the workings of
Nature. The rise of modern science over the past few centuries, continuously striving to …

Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has been proposed as a new method for designing systems for
complex real world applications. One of the problems has been that only small systems have …

Evolvable hardware (EHW) refers to self-reconfiguration hardware design, where the
configuration is under the control of an evolutionary algorithm (EA). One of the main …