Author: Adrian Thompson Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1447134141 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Evolution through natural selection has been going on for a very long time. Evolution through artificial selection has been practiced by humans for a large part of our history, in the breeding of plants and livestock. Artificial evolution, where we evolve an artifact through artificial selection, has been around since electronic computers became common: about 30 years. Right from the beginning, people have suggested using artificial evolution to design electronics automatically.l Only recently, though, have suitable re configurable silicon chips become available that make it easy for artificial evolution to work with a real, physical, electronic medium: before them, ex periments had to be done entirely in software simulations. Early research concentrated on the potential applications opened-up by the raw speed ad vantage of dedicated digital hardware over software simulation on a general purpose computer. This book is an attempt to show that there is more to it than that. In fact, a radically new viewpoint is possible, with fascinating consequences. This book was written as a doctoral thesis, submitted in September 1996. As such, it was a rather daring exercise in ruthless brevity. Believing that the contribution I had to make was essentially a simple one, I resisted being drawn into peripheral discussions. In the places where I deliberately drop a subject, this implies neither that it's not interesting, nor that it's not relevant: just that it's not a crucial part of the tale I want to tell here.
Author: Cyrus Xavier Publisher: Publifye AS ISBN: 8233931764 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
""Hardware Evolution"" takes readers on a captivating journey through the Silicon Revolution, exploring how the evolution of computer hardware has fundamentally shaped our modern world. This accessible book illuminates the exponential growth of computing power, the remarkable miniaturization of electronic devices, and the democratization of technology. From the room-sized ENIAC of the 1940s to today's powerful smartphones, the book traces the rapid pace of technological change and its far-reaching consequences. The narrative is structured around three major sections: the rise of personal computing, the mobile revolution, and the Internet of Things. Each section demonstrates how hardware advancements have enabled new capabilities and transformed human behavior. For instance, the book highlights how Moore's Law has not only driven technological progress but also influenced business strategies and global economics. Readers will gain insight into how the microprocessor's invention revolutionized computing and how the evolution of digital cameras changed the way we capture and share memories. What sets this book apart is its engaging storytelling approach, which puts readers in the shoes of inventors and engineers. By weaving together technical concepts with anecdotes and real-world examples, ""Hardware Evolution"" makes complex topics both understandable and entertaining for a general audience interested in technology. The book concludes with a glimpse into emerging technologies like quantum computing, inviting readers to contemplate the future of hardware and its potential impact on society.
Author: Paul Kaufmann Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH ISBN: 3832535306 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Reconfigurable circuit devices have opened up a fundamentally new way of creating adaptable systems. Combined with artificial evolution, reconfigurable circuits allow an elegant adaptation approach to compensating for changes in the distribution of input data, computational resource errors, and variations in resource requirements. Referred to as "Evolvable Hardware" (EHW), this paradigm has yielded astonishing results for traditional engineering challenges and has discovered intriguing design principles, which have not yet been seen in conventional engineering. In this thesis, we present new and fundamental work on Evolvable Hardware motivated by the insight that Evolvable Hardware needs to compensate for events with different change rates. To solve the challenge of different adaptation speeds, we propose a unified adaptation approach based on multi-objective evolution, evolving and propagating candidate solutions that are diverse in objectives that may experience radical changes. Focusing on algorithmic aspects, we enable Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) model, which we are using to encode Boolean circuits, for multi-objective optimization by introducing a meaningful recombination operator. We improve the scalability of CGP by objectives scaling, periodization of local- and global-search algorithms, and the automatic acquisition and reuse of subfunctions using age- and cone-based techniques. We validate our methods on the applications of adaptation of hardware classifiers to resource changes, recognition of muscular signals for prosthesis control and optimization of processor caches.
Author: Tetsuya Higuchi Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9783540631736 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 504
Book Description
This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-conference proceedings recording the scientific progress achieved at the First International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES'96, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in October 1996. The volume presents 33 revised full papers including several invited contributions surveying the state of the art in this emerging area of research and development. The volume is divided into topical sections on evolware, cellular systems, engineering applications of evolvable hardware systems, evolutionary robotics, innovative architectures, evolvable systems, evolvable hardware, and genetic programming.
Author: Bogdan Ion Purcaru Publisher: Purcaru Ion Bogdan ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 552
Book Description
My two biggest passions concerning computers are hardware and gaming. I wrote this book because I don’t want that important pieces of history regarding computer hardware, games and, in a smaller amount the 80’s operating systems to be forgotten and lost. I want everyone to appreciate the hardware and software industry and especially the people behind them as they worked many days and nights to deliver us fast and advanced computers and entertaining and complex games.
Author: Martin A. Trefzer Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3662446162 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 432
Book Description
This book covers the basic theory, practical details and advanced research of the implementation of evolutionary methods on physical substrates. Most of the examples are from electronic engineering applications, including transistor-level design and system-level implementation. The authors present an overview of the successes achieved, and the book will act as a point of reference for both academic and industrial researchers.
Author: Gregory S. Hornby Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540858571 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 458
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2008, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2008. The 28 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evolution of analog circuits, evolution of digital circuits, hardware-software codesign and platforms for adaptive systems, evolutionary robotics, development, real-world applications, evolutionary networking, evolvable artificial neural networks, and transistor-level circuit evolution.
Author: Moshe Sipper Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9783540649540 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 404
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES '98, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 1998. The 38 revised papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation of digital systems, evolution of analog systems, embryonic electronics, bio-inspired systems, artifical neural networks, adaptive robotics, adaptive hardware platforms, and molecular computing.
Author: Tetsuya Higuchi Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0387312382 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
Evolvable hardware (EHW) refers to hardware whose architecture/structure and functions change dynamically and autonomously in order to improve its performance in carrying out tasks. The only single resource presenting both the fundamentals, and the latest advances in the field, this book teaches the basics of reconfigurable devices, why they are necessary and how they are designed.
Author: Garrison W. Greenwood Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470049707 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
Introduction to Evolvable Hardware: A Practical Guide for Designing Self-Adaptive Systems provides a fundamental introduction for engineers, designers, and managers involved in the development of adaptive, high reliability systems. It also introduces the concepts of evolvable hardware (EHW) to new researchers in a structured way. With this practical book, you’ll be able to quickly apply the techniques presented to existing design problems.
Author: Adrian Thompson
Author: Cyrus Xavier
Author: Paul Kaufmann
Author: Tetsuya Higuchi
Author: Bogdan Ion Purcaru
Author: Martin A. Trefzer
Author: Gregory S. Hornby
Author: Moshe Sipper
Author: Tetsuya Higuchi
Author: Garrison W. Greenwood