Aspects of digital evolution: Evolvability and architecture [chapter]

Julian F. Miller, Peter Thomson
1998 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
This paper describes experiments to determine how the architecture vis-a-vis routing and functional resources affect the ease with which combinational logic designs may be evolved on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). We compare two chromosome representations with differing levels of connectivity, and show that the amount of routing and functional resource have a marked effect on the success of the evolutionary process.
doi:10.1007/bfb0056934 fatcat:rtluwvtnxfhpbmer3z37bxmh4i