Evolvable Hardware as a New Computer Architecture
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Evolvable Hardware (EHW) is a new scheme inspired by natural evolution, for designing hardware systems. By exploring a large design search space, EHW may find solutions for a task, unsolvable, or more optimal than those found using traditional design methods. The paper introduces this new approach and outlines how it can be applied for hardware design of real-world applications. It continues by including proposals of how a variety of principles from biology can be applied to improve the scheme.
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