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A hardware evolutionary system is proposed that automatically changes hardware description language specifications of digital circuits and adapts them to applied specific problems. Outputs from the system can be converted to real electronic circuits instead of the conceptual data structure in computer memory. Such individual circuits can be seen as an artificial life that behaves at electronic speed: true “life on the silicon.”
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Hemmi, H., Shimohara, K. Hardware evolution — a real “life on the silicon”. Artificial Life and Robotics 1, 191–195 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02471139
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02471139