MOVE: a framework for high-performance processor design
Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A robust multiplexer-based FPGA inspired by biological systems
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal - Special issue: dependable parallel computer systems
Configuration cloning: exploiting regularity in dynamic DSP architectures
FPGA '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM/SIGDA seventh international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Spectrum
Microprocessor Architectures: From VLIW to Tta
Microprocessor Architectures: From VLIW to Tta
IEEE Design & Test
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
POEtic tissue: an integrated architecture for bio-inspired hardware
ICES'03 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware
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The growth and operation of all living beings are directed by the interpretation, in each of their cells, of a chemical program, the DNA string or genome. This process is the source of inspiration for the Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project, whose final objective is the design of highly robust integrated circuits, endowed with properties usually associated with the living world: self-repair (cicatrization) and self-replication. The Embryonics architecture is based on four hierarchical levels of organization: 1) the basic primitive of our system is the molecule, a multiplexer-based element of a novel programmable circuit; 2) a finite set of molecules makes up a cell, essentially a small processor with an associated memory; 3) a finite set of cells makes up an organism, an application-specific multiprocessor system; 4) the organism can itself replicate, giving rise to a population of identical organisms. In this paper, we provide an overview of our latest research in the domain of the self-replication of processing elements within a programmable logic substrate, a key prerequisite for achieving system-level fault tolerance in our bio-inspired approach.