That firm hardware evolves!
I wonder what image everybody has when hearing that hardware
evolves. I wonder whether everybody will imagine the scene where arms of
the robot are transformed and the hand is transformed into the drill like
the robot animation. The hardware evolution which I introduce here might
be a little different from the imagination of everybody. Then, the hardware
evolution which is my research theme is introduced as follows.
LSI which was able to be composed again repeatedly appeared
by the advancement of hardware. This LSI can compose electronic circuit
of various compositions internally by writing external empt data. This
LSI is called FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). The FPGA is used in
the field where prototype design and a small amount of other articles kind
of electronic circuit should be made in a short
term now. There was advancement remarkable as for the
design technique of hardware. The computer aided comes to be done to the
world of the hardware design, and the design by the hardware description
language has become general.
We described hardware with software and came to be able
to generate hardware by the advancement of the above mentioned two technologies.
We are proposing hardware evolution system AdAM based on hardware description
language SFL of CAD system PARTHENON
which NTT developed.
By now, I have done the expansion of chromosome into diploid chromosome and the submission of the progressive evolution model. My research announcement career at a current international conference is shown in the following.
List
of My articles
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Tomofumi Hikage
is a Research Scientist in the Social Communication Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories (CS Labs.). He received his Bachelor's
degree in 1991 and his Masters degree in 1993 from Utsunomiya University,
Tochigi, Japan. He had worked in NTT HI Labs since 1993. He has worked
in NTT CS Labs since 1998.
His current research interest is Hardware Evolution and
Artificial Life.