A Study on the EHW Chip Architecture

EHW 칩 아키텍쳐에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Jong-O (School of Electrical Engineering Dongyang Technical College) ;
  • Kim, Duck-Soo (School of Electrical Engineering Dongyang Technical College) ;
  • Lee, Won-Seok (School of Electrical Engineering Dongyang Technical College)
  • 김종오 (동양공업전문대학 전기전자통신공학부) ;
  • 김덕수 (동양공업전문대학 전기전자통신공학부) ;
  • 이원석 (동양공업전문대학 전기전자통신공학부)
  • Published : 2008.06.18

Abstract

An area of research called evolvable hardware has recently emerged which combines aspects of evolutionary computation with hardware design and synthesis. Evolvable hardware (EHW) is hardware that can change its own circuit structure by genetic learning to achieve maximum adaptation to the environment. In conventional EHW, the learning is executed by software on a computer. In this paper, we have studied and surveyed a gate-level evolvable hardware chip, by integrating both GA hardware and reconfigurable hardware within a single LSI chip. The chip consists of genetic algorithm(GA) hardware, reconfigurable hardware logic, and the control logic. In this paper, we describe the architecture, functions of the chip.

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