Virtual reconfigurable circuits for real-world applications of evolvable hardware

  • Authors:
  • Lukáš Sekanina

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • ICES'03 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The paper introduces a new method for the design of real-world applications of evolvable hardware using common FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). In order to avoid "reconfiguration problems" of current FPGAs a new virtual reconfigurable circuit, whose granularity and configuration schema exactly fit to requirements of a given application, is designed on the top of an ordinary FPGA. As an example, a virtual reconfigurable circuit is constructed to speed up the software model, which was utilized for the evolutionary design of image operators.