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This paper introduces the ubichip, a custom reconfigurable electronic device capable of implementing bio- inspired circuits featuring growth, learning, and evolution. The ubichip is developed in the framework of Perplexus, a European project that aims to develop a scalable hardware platform made of bio-inspired custom reconfigurable devices for simulating large-scale complex systems. In this paper,...
Fault tolerance is a crucial operational aspect of biological systems and the self-repair capabilities of complex organisms far exceeds that of even the most advanced electronic devices. While many of the processes used by nature to achieve fault tolerance cannot easily be applied to silicon-based systems, in this paper we show that mechanisms loosely inspired by the operation of multicellular organisms...
The complexity exhibited by pervasive systems is constantly increasing. Customer electronics devices provide day to day a larger amount of functionalities. A common approach for guaranteeing high performance is to include specialized coprocessor units. However, these systems lack flexibility, since one must define, in advance, the coprocessor functionality. A solution to this problem is to use run-time...
In this paper, we present the VLSI realization of a configurable device called POEtic. This device encompasses a custom 32-bit RISC microprocessor and a custom FPGA with dynamic routing capabilities and also with dynamic and self-configuration abilities. The POEtic device can be used as a standalone general-purpose prototyping platform with dynamic reconfiguration capabilities. Additionally, the system...
In spite of the high parallelism exhibited by cellular automata architectures, most implementations are usually run in software. For increasing execution parallelism, hardware implementations on FPGAs have been proposed, under the cost of being un-flexible, and inefficient in terms of resource utilization. In this paper, we present a platform for evolving CA by exploiting the partial re-configurability...
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