Hardware Evolution Platform Reasearch Based on Matrix Coding CGP

Abstract

Evolvable hardware is a combination of evolutionary algorithms and reconfigurable hardware, which can change itself structure to adapt to the living environment. Evolvable hardware possessed the characteristics of self-organization, self-adaptation and self-repair. The off-line evolution of digital circuits is similar to a simulation process, which lacks real-time capability and cannot generate actual circuits for every evolutionary digital circuit. The hardware online evolution platform is designed for evolution digital circuit based on Field Programmer Gate Array. Compared with off-line evolution, the platform can monitor the status of the designed circuit in real time, and it is easily to evolve a digital circuit for practical products directly. The multiplier circuit has obtained using the on online evolution platform combining based on matrix coded Cartesian Genetic Programming.