Measuring the Performance and Intrinsic Variability of Evolved Circuits

Walker, James Alfred; Hilder, James A.; Tyrrell, Andy M.

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“…It is not uncommon for modern integrated circuits to be comprised of more than one billion transistors (Walker et al, 2010). In most cases, these high transistor counts are the result of implementing multiple cores on a single chip (Krazit, 2011).…”

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Design of Introspective Circuits for Analysis of Cell-Level Dis-orientation in Self-Assembled Cellular Systems

2016

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This paper discusses a novel approach to managing complexity in a large self-assembled system, by utilizing the self-assembling components themselves to address the complexity. A particular challenge is discussed -namely the question of how to deal with elements that are assembled in different orientations from each other -and a solution based on the idea of introspective circuitry is described. A methodology for using a set of cells to determine a nearby cell's orientation is given, leading to a slow (O(n)) means of orienting a 2D region of cells. A modified algorithm is then describe to allow parallel analysis of/adaption to dis-oriented cells, thus allowing re-orientation of an entire 2D region of cells with better-than-linear time performance (O(sqrt(n))). The significance of this work is discussed not only in terms of managing arrays of dis-oriented cells but also more importantly as an example of the usefulness of local, distributed self-configuration to create and use introspective circuitry.

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confidence: 99%