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A novel self-adaptive Circuit design technique based on evolvable hardware

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Since traditional fault tolerance methods of electronic systems are based on redundant fault tolerance technique, and their structures are fixed when circuits are designed, the self-adaptive ability is limited. In order to solve these problems, a novel circuit self-adaptive design technique based on evolvable hardware (EHW) is proposed. It features robustness, self-organization and self-adaption. It can be adapted to a complex environment through dynamic configuration of the circuit. In this paper, the proposed technique simulated. The consumption of hardware resources and the number of convergence iterations researched. The effectiveness and superiority of the proposed technique are verified. The designed circuit has the ability of resistible redundant-state interference (RRSI). The proposed technique has a broad application prospect, and it has great significance.

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Jun-Bin Zhang received his B. Sc. degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China in 2011, and received his M. Sc. degree from Mechanical Engineering College, China in 2013. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering College, China.

His research interests include evolvable hardware (EHW) and fault self-repair of electronic systems.

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7085-6056

Jin-Yan Cai received B. Sc. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China in 1982. She received M. Sc. degree from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China in 1988 and 2010. Currently, she is a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Mechanical Engineering College, China.

Her research interests include electronic system fault diagnosis, electronic system reliability, fault self-repair and evolvable hardware (EHW).

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2070-2638

Ya-Feng Meng received his B. Sc., M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Mechanical Engineering College, China in 1998, 2000 and 2004. Currently, he is an associate professor and master supervisor at Mechanical Engineering College, China.

His area of research includes electronic system fault diagnosis and electronic system reliability.

Tian-Zhen Meng received her B. Sc. degree from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China in 2012. She is a master student at mechanical engineering college, China.

Her area of research includes electronic system fault diagnosis and evolvable hardware.

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Zhang, JB., Cai, JY., Meng, YF. et al. A novel self-adaptive Circuit design technique based on evolvable hardware. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 17, 744–751 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-016-1000-8

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