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BL
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718083
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b537771
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| Main Entry
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Adrian Thompson.
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| Title & Author
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Hardware evolution : : automatic design of electronic circuits in reconfigurable hardware by Artificial Evolution\ Adrian Thompson.
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| Publication Statement
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London ; New York: Springer, ©1998.
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| Series Statement
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CPHC/BCS distinguished dissertations.
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(xviii, 115 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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1447134141
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: 1447134168
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: 9781447134145
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: 9781447134169
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| Contents
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Introduction --;Context --;Inspiration --;Evolutionary Algorithms for Electronic Design: Other Approaches --;Multi-Criteria EAs: Area, Power, Speed and Testability --;Unconstrained Structure and Dynamics --;The Relationship Between Intrinsic Hardware Evolution and Conventional Design Techniques --;Unconstrained Structure --;Unconstrained Dynamics --;The Relationship Between Intrinsic Hardware Evolution and Natural Evolution --;Parsimony and Fault Tolerance --;Insensitivity to Genetic Mutations --;Engineering Consequences of Mutation-Insensitivity --;Explicitly Specifying Fault-Tolerance Requirements --;Adaptation to Faults --;Fault Tolerance Through Redundancy --;Summary --;Demonstration --;Future Work --;Engineering Tolerances --;Applications.
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A study of hardware evolution. It uses a series of experiments to explore the practicalities of removing the constraints on circuit structure and dynamics which are normally needed to permit design abstractions, culminating in a simple but non-trivial application.
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| Subject
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Computers -- Circuits -- Design and construction.
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Field programmable gate arrays.
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Robots -- Control systems.
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| LC Classification
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TK7888.4A375 1998
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Adrian Thompson
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