Self-Replicating Hardware for Reliability: The Embryonics Project

Gianluca Tempesti; Daniel Mange; Pierre-Andre Mudry; Joel Rossier; Andre Stauffer

doi:10.1145/1265949.1265955

Self-Replicating Hardware for Reliability: The Embryonics Project

Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Mange, Pierre-Andre Mudry, Joel Rossier, Andre Stauffer

Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

The multicellular structure of biological organisms and the interpretation in each of their cells of a chemical program (the DNA string or genome) is the source of inspiration for the Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project, whose final objective is the design of highly robust integrated circuits, endowed with properties usually associated with the living world: self-repair and self-replication. In this article, we provide an overview of our latest research in the domain of the self-replication of processing elements within a programmable logic substrate, a key prerequisite for achieving system-level fault tolerance in our bio-inspired approach.

Original language	English
Article number	9
Number of pages	21
Journal	Acm journal on emerging technologies in computing systems
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1265949.1265955
Publication status	Published - Jul 2007

Keywords

Design
Reliability
Bio-inspired architectures
growth
embryonic electronics
self-replication
self-repair
hierarchical fault tolerance

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