Data compression for digital color electrophotographic printer with Evolvable Hardware

Intrinsic and extrinsic implementation of a bio-inspired hardware system

“…This led to circuits with strange structures and intricate dynamical behaviours beyond the scope of conventional design and analysis [14]. The MITI group led by Higuchi has also investigated the use of evolutionary techniques on reconfigurable devices and have developed many implementations for evolvable hardware [7,15,16]. Work has been carried out in incorporating the necessary components, such as the GA hardware, reconfigurable device and a CPU core, onto a single LSI chip, for use in situations that need circuits to be as small and light as possible [17,18].…”

A Flexible On-Chip Evolution System Implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Device

“…Examples include data compression for printers [33], analog filters [18], evolved image filters [28], and evolved shapes for space antennas [22]. However, many of the applications so far have been on limited, simple problems, with little comparison to traditional approaches.…”

Theory and applications of evolvable embedded systems

“…Although some evolvable SoCs have been presented [9,11,30], a typical evolvable system is implemented using a stand-alone board equipped with a reconfigurable circuit and a powerful personal computer where an evolutionary algorithm is carried out. If evolvable IP cores were dominated in future, the design process of evolvable hardware will be transformed to the software design process at the level of HDLs.…”

“…It means that the SoC contains a reconfigurable device. Some of such devices have been commercialized up to now, for example, a data compression chip [30].…”

“…Evolution has to find such a predictor that is optimal for a given block of an image. An image compression system based on this idea was implemented and commercialized [30].…”