MUXTREE revisited: Embryonics as a reconfiguration strategy in fault-tolerant processor arrays

C Ortega-Sanchez; A Tyrrell

MUXTREE revisited: Embryonics as a reconfiguration strategy in fault-tolerant processor arrays

C Ortega-Sanchez, A Tyrrell

Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

Embryonics' proposal is to construct arrays of processing elements with self-diagnosis and self-reconfiguration abilities able to tolerate the presence of failing cells in the same fashion as natural cellular systems do. Self-healing mechanisms found in nature and the implicit redundancy of cellular architectures constitute the foundations of embryonic systems' fault tolerance properties. It will be shown in this paper how by incorporating the biological concepts of chromosome and gene, the complexity of the MUXTREE embryonic architecture can be simplified, in comparison with the previous version. It is argued that by assuming a broader meaning for the concept of evolution it possible to classify embryonic arrays and other adaptable systems as evolvable.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EVOLVABLE SYSTEMS: FROM BIOLOGY TO HARDWARE
Editors	M Sipper, D Mange, A PerezUribe
Place of Publication	BERLIN
Publisher	Springer
Pages	206-217
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	3-540-64954-9
Publication status	Published - 1998
Event	2nd International Conference on Evolvable Systems - From Biology to Hardware (ICES 98) - LAUSANNE Duration: 23 Sep 1998 → 25 Sep 1998

Conference

Conference	2nd International Conference on Evolvable Systems - From Biology to Hardware (ICES 98)
City	LAUSANNE
Period	23/09/98 → 25/09/98

Keywords

SELF-REPRODUCTION
AUTOMATA

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