Evolutionary strategies and intrinsic fault tolerance

A M Tyrrell; G Hollingworth; S L Smith

Evolutionary strategies and intrinsic fault tolerance

Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

Redundancy is a critical component to the design of fault tolerant systems, both hardware and software. This paper explores the possibilities of using evolutionary techniques to first produce a processing system that will perform a required function, and then consider its applicability for producing useful redundancy that can be made use of in the presence of faults, ie is it fault tolerant? Results obtained using Evolutionary Strategies to automatically create redundancy as part of the "design" process are given. The experiments are undertaken on a Virtex FPGA with intrinsic evolution taking place. The results show that not only does the evolutionary process produce useful redundancy, it is also possible to reconfigure the system in real-time on the Virtex device.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	THIRD NASA/DOD WORKSHOP ON EVOLVABLE HARDWARE, PROCEEDINGS
Editors	D Keymeulen, A Stoica, J Lohn, RS Zebulum
Place of Publication	LOS ALAMITOS
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	98-106
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	0-7695-1180-5
Publication status	Published - 2001
Event	3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2001) - LONG BEACH Duration: 12 Jul 2001 → 14 Jul 2001

Conference

Conference	3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2001)
City	LONG BEACH
Period	12/07/01 → 14/07/01

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