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This paper will present the final hardware realization of a new family of programmable devices that has specifically being conceived in order to address the prototyping of bio-inspired principles. The devices are organized around a custom 32-bit RISC microprocessor and a custom FPGA. The internal architecture devised for the devices is scalable, so that it is possible to construct a physical hardware platform whose size matches the requirements of the application to be handled. To facilitate the development of applications for this hardware platform a complete set of design tools has been developed.
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Moreno, J.M., Thoma, Y., Sanchez, E. (2005). POEtic: A Prototyping Platform for Bio-inspired Hardware. In: Moreno, J.M., Madrenas, J., Cosp, J. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3637. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11549703_17
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