Novel applications of evolvable hardware using virtual reconfigurable circuits

Abstract

For the past several years the technology of reconfigurable devices newlinehas experienced an impressive development in its availability of resources newlineability of reconfiguration and speed At present commercial FPGAsField newlineProgrammable Gate Arrays are provided with the possibility of selfreconfiguring newlineby partially modifying their configuration bit stream providing newlinehigh architectural flexibility without compromising on the performance This newlinefacility of selfreconfiguration attracts research engineers working on newlinecomputer architecture and other areas like cryptographic algorithms newlineautomotive applications image processing and other different general purpose newlinefunctions The combination of this advanced FPGAs and bioinspired newlinehardware leads to an expansion of the research field enlarging taking the newlineinspiration from living beings This results in the designing of hardware newlinesystems with fault tolerance and selfadaptability which includes other newlinediverse areas like EHW Evolved Hardware neural hardware fuzzy newlinehardware and many others newline newline