Abstract
For electronic devices especially used in extreme-environment, it is very important to ensure high-reliability and long-lifetime operation; so it is significant to develop fault-tolerant mechanisms by adopting evolutionary algorithm. Based on EHW (evolvable hardware), this paper presents a new FPACA (field programmable analog cell array) which is an evolution-oriented reconfigurable architecture and can implement evolution of both analog and digital functions. Adopting single-chromosome evolutionary algorithm, we establish evolutionary reconfiguration mechanism to research the fault- tolerance of evolutionary analog circuits, such as amplifiers, filters or DAC (digital to analog converters). Comparing to FPTA, FPACA has the advantages of low hardware cost and convenience of software analysis and simulation. By implementing a typical amplifier circuit, we illustrate the fault-tolerance of FPACA analog circuits and the experimental results show the correctness and feasibility of FPACA.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Yao, X., Higuichi, T.: Promises and Challenges of Evolvable Hardware. IEEE Trans. On Systems Man and Cybernetics-Part C: Applications and Reviews 29, 87–97 (1999)
Wang, Y., Zhang, Z., Cui, J., Chen, Z.: The Architecture and Circuital Implementation Scheme of A New Cell Neural Network for Analog Signal Processing. In: Pre-proceedings of the International Conference Bio-Inspired Computing - Theory and Applications, Wuhan, China, pp. 374–380 (2006)
Stoica, A., Zebulum, R.S., Keymeulen, D., Daud, T.: Transistor-Level Circuit Experiments Using Evolvable Hardware. In: Mira, J.M., Álvarez, J.R. (eds.) IWINAC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3562, pp. 366–375. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Stoica, A., Keymeulen, D., Arslan, T., Duong, V., Zebulum, R.S., Ferguson, I., Guo, X.: Circuit Self-Recovery Experiments in Extreme Environments. In: Proceedings of the 2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolution Hardware, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 142–145 (2004)
Stoica, A., Keymeulen, D., Zebulum, R.S., Thakoor, A., Daud, T., Klimeck, G., Jin, Y., Tawel, R., Duong, V.: Evolution of Analog Circuits on Field Programmable Transistor Arrays. In: Proc. of the Second NASA/DOD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, pp. 99–108. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (2000)
Ricardo, S., Zebulum, R.S., Keymeulen, D., Duong, V., Guo, X., Ferguson, M.I., Stoica, A.: Experimental Results in Evolutionary Fault-Recovery for Field Programmable Analog Devices. In: Proceedings of The 2003 NASA/Dod Conference on Evolvable Hardware, Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 182–186 (2003)
Stoica, A., Zebulum, R., Keymeulen, D.: Progress and Challenges in Building Evolvable Devices. In: Proceedings of The Third NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, Long Beach, CA, USA, pp. 33–35 (2001)
Levi, D.: HereBoy: a fast evolutionary algorithm Evolvable Hardware. In: Proceedings of The Second NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, Palo Alto, CA, USA, pp. 17–24 (2000)
Stoica, A., Zebulum, R., Keymeulen, D., Tawel, R., Daud, T., Thakoor, A.: Reconfigurable VLSI Architectures for Evolvable Hardware: from Experimental Field Programmable Transistor Arrays to Evolution-Oriented Chips. IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems 9, 227–232 (2001)
Stoica, A., Keymeulen, D., Tawel, R., Salazar, C., Li, W.T.: Evolutionary Experiments with a Fine-grained Reconfigurable Architecture for Analog and Digital CMOS Circuits. In: Proceedings of the First NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, Pasadana, pp. 76–84. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (1999)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Ji, Q., Wang, Y., Xie, M., Cui, J. (2007). Research on Fault-Tolerance of Analog Circuits Based on Evolvable Hardware. In: Kang, L., Liu, Y., Zeng, S. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4684. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74626-3_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74626-3_10
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-74625-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-74626-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)