POEtic: an electronic tissue for bio-inspired cellular applications

Thoma, Yann; Tempesti, Gianluca; Sánchez, Eduardo García; Arostegui, Juan-Manuel Moreno

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.05.023

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“…This hardware structure proposes an increased amount of versatility compared to other platforms (for example, the BioWall [12] or the POEtic tissue [14]), notably because its modular organization allows interchanging all the elements of the system. If this might be interesting in the perspective of debugging and replacing faulty parts, the clear advantage of this approach resides in the fact that the computing elements, which are plugged into the system and not soldered on it, could also be easily replaced.…”

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A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing

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Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

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Abstract. In this article, we describe a novel hardware-software design framework for prototyping cellular architectures in hardware. Based on an extensible platform of about 200 FPGAs, configured as a networked structure of processors, the hardware part of this computing framework is backed by an extensible library of software components that provides primitives for efficient inter-processor communication and distributed computation. This dual software-hardware approach allows a very quick exploration of different ways to solve computational problems using bio-inspired techniques. To demonstrate the validity of the method, we present an example of how a traditional parallel system such as a cellular automaton can be modeled and run with this perspective. In addition, we also show that the flexibility of our approach allows not only cellular automata but any computation to be easily implemented on a cellular substrate.

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“…For these reasons, over the past several years a number of dedicated hardware devices have been developed, e.g. [6][12] [14] [15].…”

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“…All of these models, to a greater or lesser extent have been used as a source of inspiration for the development of computing machines (such as the ontogenesis in the Embryonics project or epigenesis for artificial neural networks) but before the POEtic project [1,2], no hardware substrate had been developed that could combine the three axes of bio-inspiration into one single circuit. Indeed, the POEtic tissue draws inspiration from these three axes and from the multi-cellular structure of complex biological organisms.…”

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“…To illustrate this process, we will use a simple system that implements a watch counter using four processors. The system has been realized in a slightly modified version of the POEtic tissue [1,2], a reconfigurable logic circuit structure especially designed for bio-inspired applications that will be presented in section 2.2.…”

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“…This article describes an implementation of a basic multiprocessor system that exhibits replication and differentiation abilities on the POEtic tissue, a programmable hardware designed for bio-inspired applications [1,2] . As for a living organism, whose existence starts with only one cell that first divides, our system begins with only one totipotent processor, able to implement any of the cells required by the final organism, which can also fully replicate itself, using the functionalities of the POEtic substrate.…”

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MOVE Processors That Self-replicate and Differentiate

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Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology

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Abstract. This article describes an implementation of a basic multiprocessor system that exhibits replication and differentiation abilities on the POEtic tissue, a programmable hardware designed for bio-inspired applications [1,2] . As for a living organism, whose existence starts with only one cell that first divides, our system begins with only one totipotent processor, able to implement any of the cells required by the final organism, which can also fully replicate itself, using the functionalities of the POEtic substrate. Then, analogously to the cells in a developing organism, our just replicated totipotent processors differentiate in order to execute their specific part of the complete organism functionality. In particular, we will present a working realization using MOVE processors whose instructions define the flow of data rather than the operations to be executed [3]. It starts with one basic MOVE processor that first replicates itself three times; the four resulting processors then differentiate and connect together to implement a multi-processor modulus-60 counter.

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Putting Evolvable Hardware to Use

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2006

Introduction to Evolvable Hardware

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POEtic: an electronic tissue for bio-inspired cellular applications

Cited by 56 publications

References 13 publications

A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing

A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing

MOVE Processors That Self-replicate and Differentiate

Putting Evolvable Hardware to Use

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