Fault tolerance in co-evolutionary communication of EHW modules

  • Authors:
  • Yasser Baleghi Damavandi;Karim Mohammadi

  • Affiliations:
  • Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran 16846, Iran;Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran 16846, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Evolvable Hardware (EHW) is a new concept that applies evolutionary algorithms to hardware design. Based on previous work on co-evolutionary communication of EHW modules, this paper investigates the new feature of fault tolerance for this model. A fault model is built for the communication line between EHW modules. The experiment demonstrated in the presentation is the simulation of injecting stuck/bridging faults into an EHW-based serial adder that has been previously developed. The outcomes imply an outstanding feature of fault tolerance in this system with 100% fault coverage, which paves the way for bio-inspired approaches to fault tolerant design instead of the classic ones.