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Initial Studies of a New VLSI Field Programmable Transistor Array

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Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2001)

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A system for intrinsic hardware evolution of analog electronic circuits is presented.It consists of a VLSI chip featuring 16 × 16 programmable transistor cells, an FPGA based PCI card and a software package for setup and control of the experiment.The PCI card serves as a link between the chip and the computer that runs the genetic algorithm to produce the configurations for the Field Programmable Transistor Array (FPTA).First measurement results prove chip and system to be working as well as they indicate the tradeoff between performance and configurability.The system is now ready to host a wide variety of evolution experiments.

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  1. Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Schröderstr.90, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Jörg Langeheine, Joachim Becker, Simon Fölling, Karlheinz Meier & Johannes Schemmel

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  1. University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-8580, Japan

    Yong Liu

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan

    Kiyoshi Tanaka

  3. Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Science and Technology, Adv. Semiconductor Research Center, AIST Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan

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  4. University of Tsukuba, Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan

    Moritoshi Yasunaga

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Langeheine, J., Becker, J., Fölling, S., Meier, K., Schemmel, J. (2001). Initial Studies of a New VLSI Field Programmable Transistor Array. In: Liu, Y., Tanaka, K., Iwata, M., Higuchi, T., Yasunaga, M. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2210. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45443-8_6

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