Self-repairing multicellular hardware: A reliability analysis

C Ortega; A Tyrrell

Self-repairing multicellular hardware: A reliability analysis

Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

Artificial Life explores the characteristics of living organisms to understand not only life as it is, but also as it could be. Embryonics is a proposal for a new generation of fault-tolerant Field-Programmable Multicellular Arrays inspired by nature and appropriate for Artificial Life research. Embryonic arrays use hardware redundancy and array reconfiguration mechanisms to achieve fault tolerance. In this paper the k-out-of-m reliability model is used to analyse the reconfiguration strategies used in embryonic arrays. Two schemes are investigated: row- or column-elimination and cell-elimination. The models proposed can also be used to analyse the reliability of systems with spares other than embryonic arrays.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE, PROCEEDINGS
Editors	D Floreano, JD Nicoud, F Mondada
Place of Publication	BERLIN
Publisher	Springer
Pages	442-446
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	3-540-66452-1
Publication status	Published - 1999
Event	5th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) - LAUSANNE Duration: 13 Sept 1999 → 17 Sept 1999

Conference

Conference	5th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL)
City	LAUSANNE
Period	13/09/99 → 17/09/99

Keywords

ARRAYS

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