The intrinsic evolution of Virtex devices through Internet reconfigurable logic

G Hollingworth; S Smith; A Tyrrell

The intrinsic evolution of Virtex devices through Internet reconfigurable logic

Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

This paper describes the implementation of an evolvable hardware system on the Virtex Family of devices. The evaluation of the circuits is done intrinsically by downloading a portion of the bitstream that describes the changes from the baseline circuit. This reconfiguration system is achieved through the use of the Xilinx JBits API to identify and extract the changing bitstream. This partial reconfiguration process is very much faster than the previous methods of complete reconfiguration, leading to the complete evolution of a simple circuit in less than half an hour.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EVOLVABLE SYSTEMS: FROM BIOLOGY TO HARDWARE, PROCEEDINGS
Editors	J Miller, A Thompson, P Thomson, TC Fogarty
Place of Publication	BERLIN
Publisher	Springer
Pages	72-79
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	3-540-67338-5
Publication status	Published - 2000
Event	3rd International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES 2000) - EDINBURGH Duration: 17 Apr 2000 → 19 Apr 2000

Conference

Conference	3rd International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES 2000)
City	EDINBURGH
Period	17/04/00 → 19/04/00

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