• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.62-73
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• 2005

진화 하드웨어(evolvable hardware)는 재구성 가능한 디지털 회로에 진화연산이 적용되어 실시간으로 환경에 적응함으로써 필요한 기능을 자동적으로 구현하는 기술이다. 이는 하드웨어 회로의 자동설계 가능성을 열어 주었지만, 아직 복잡한 회로를 얻기에는 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 진화 하드웨어의 적합도 공간을 분석하여, 다양한 개체가 동시에 진화되는 종분화 기법을 제안하고 그 효율성을 실험적으로 보인다. 또한 종분화 기법으로 얻은 다양한 회로를 분석하여 유용한 부가 기능이 창출될 수 있음을 보인다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권10호
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• pp.1364-1373
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• 2004

진화 하드웨어(Evolvable Hardware)는 환경에 적응하여 스스로 구성을 변경할 수 있는 하드웨어로 생산성 향상 및 독창적 회로설계를 위해 최근 널리 연구되고 있다 하지만, 하드웨어의 복잡도가 증가할수록 진화를 위해 탐색해야 하는 해공간의 크기가 기하급수적으로 증가하기 때문에 아직까지 복잡한 하드웨어에 대해서는 좋은 활용방안을 찾지 못하고 있다. 이 논문에서는 좀더 효율적인 설계를 위하여 복잡한 하드웨어를 모듈별로 나누어 진화시키는 방법을 제시한다. 몇 가지 회로를 기존 회로 진화 설계방식과 제시하는 모듈진화 방식으로 실험하여 비교한 결과 약 50배에서 1,000배까지의 세대절약 효과를 얻을 수 있었으며, 좀더 최적화된 하드웨어를 얻을 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.206-215
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a new design method of Genetic Algorithm Processor(GAP) and Evolvable Hardware(EHW). All sorts of creature evolve its structure or shape in order to adapt itself to environments. Evolutionary Computation based on the process of natural selection not only searches the quasi-optimal solution through the evolution process, but also changes the structure to get best results. On the other hand, Genetic Algorithm(GA) is good fur finding solutions of complex optimization problems. However, it has a major drawback, which is its slow execution speed when is implemented in software of a conventional computer. Parallel processing has been one approach to overcome the speed problem of GA. In a point of view of GA, long bit string length caused the system of GA to spend much time that clear up the problem. Evolvable Hardware refers to the automation of electronic circuit design through artificial evolution, and is currently increased with the interested topic in a research domain and an engineering methodology. The studies of EHW generally use the XC6200 of Xilinx. The structure of XC6200 can configure with gate unit. Each unit has connected up, down, right and left cell. But the products can't use because had sterilized. So this paper uses Vertex-E (XCV2000E). The cell of FPGA is made up of Configuration Logic Block (CLB) and can't reconfigure with gate unit. This paper uses Vertex-E is composed of the component as cell of XC6200 cell in VertexE

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.133-144
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• 2000

Genetic Algorithm(GA) has been known as a method of solving large-scaled optimization problems with complex constraints in various applications. Since a major drawback of the GA is that it needs a long computation time, the hardware implementations of Genetic Algorithm Processors(GAP) are focused on in recent studies. In this paper, a hardware-oriented GA was proposed in order to save the hardware resources and to reduce the execution time of GAP. Based on steady-state model among continuos generation model, the proposed GA used modified tournament selection, as well as special survival condition, with replaced whenever the offspring's fitness is better than worse-fit parent's. The proposed algorithm shows more than 30% in convergence speed over the conventional algorithm in simulation. Finally, by employing the efficient pipeline parallelization and handshaking protocol in proposed GAP, above 30% of the computation speed-up can be achieved over survival-based GA which runs one million crossovers per second (1㎒), when device speed and size of application are taken into account on prototype. It would be used for high speed processing such of central processor of evolvable hardware, robot control and many optimization problems.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.2944-2946
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• 1999

In this paper, digital circuit evolution is proposed as an intrinsic evolvable system. Evolutionary hardware is a reconfigurable one which adapt itself to the environment and evolve its structure to realize desired performance. By using special FPGA and genetic algorithm, we have made a prototype of intrinsic hardware evolution system. As an example for digital circuit evolution, full adder realization is performed. As the result of this, a very complex structure of digital circuit performing full adder was created. Analysis made on the hardware revealed that some undetermined circuits were developed.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.265-276
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• 2004

Genetic Algorithm(GA), that is shown stable performance to find an optimal solution, has been used as a method of solving large-scaled optimization problems with complex constraints in various applications. Since it takes so much time to execute a long computation process for iterative evolution and adaptation. In this paper, a hardware-based adaptive GA was proposed to reduce the serious computation time of the evolutionary process and to improve the accuracy of convergence to optimal solution. The proposed GA, based on steady-state model among continuos generation model, performs an adaptive mutation process with consideration of the evolution flow and the population diversity. The drawback of the GA, premature convergence, was solved by the proposed adaptation. The Performance improvement of convergence accuracy for some kinds of problem and condition reached to 5-100% with equivalent convergence speed to high-speed algorithm. The proposed adaptive GAP(Genetic Algorithm Processor) was implemented on FPGA device Xilinx XCV2000E of EHW board for face recognition.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.467-475
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• 2016

Ultrasonic propagation imaging (UPI) has shown great potential for detection of impairments in complex structures and can be used in wide range of non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring applications. The software implementation of such algorithms showed a tendency in time-consumption with increment in scan area because the processor shares its resources with a number of programs running at the same time. This issue was addressed by using field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) that is a dedicated processing solution and used for high speed signal processing algorithms. For this purpose, we need an independent and flexible block of logic which can be used with continuously evolvable hardware based on FPGA. In this paper, we developed an FPGA-based ultrasonic propagation imaging system, where FPGA functions for both data acquisition system and real-time ultrasonic signal processing. The developed UPI system using FPGA board provides better cost-effectiveness and resolution than digitizers, and much faster signal processing time than CPU which was tested using basic ultrasonic propagation algorithms such as ultrasonic wave propagation imaging and multi-directional adjacent wave subtraction. Finally, a comparison of results for processing time between a CPU-based UPI system and the novel FPGA-based system were presented to justify the objective of this research.