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@MISC{Circuit96anevolved,
    author = {An Evolved Circuit and Adrian Thompson},
    title = {An Evolved Circuit, Intrinsic in Silicon, Entwined with Physics},
    year = {1996}
}

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Abstract:

. `Intrinsic' Hardware Evolution is the use of artificial evolution --- such as a Genetic Algorithm --- to design an electronic circuit automatically, where each fitness evaluation is the measurement of a circuit 's performance when physically instantiated in a real reconfigurable VLSI chip. This paper makes a detailed case-study of the first such application of evolution directly to the configuration of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Evolution is allowed to explore beyond the scope of conventional design methods, resulting in a highly efficient circuit with a richer structure and dynamics and a greater respect for the natural properties of the implementation medium than is usual. The application is a simple, but not toy, problem: a tone-discrimination task. Practical details are considered throughout. 1 Introduction This paper describes a case-study in intrinsic hardware evolution: the use of artificial evolution --- such as a Genetic Algorithm --- to design a circuit automa...

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