{"product_id":"hardware-evolution-automatic-design-of-electronic-circuits-in-reconfigurable-hardware-by-artificial-evolution-9781447134169","title":"Hardware Evolution: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits in Reconfigurable Hardware by Artificial Evolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adrian Thompson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Logic Design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvolution through natural selection has been going on for a very long time. Evolution through artificial selection has been practiced by humans for a large part of our history, in the breeding of plants and livestock. Artificial evolution, where we evolve an artifact through artificial selection, has been around since electronic computers became common: about 30 years. Right from the beginning, people have suggested using artificial evolution to design electronics automatically.l Only recently, though, have suitable re- configurable silicon chips become available that make it easy for artificial evolution to work with a real, physical, electronic medium: before them, ex- periments had to be done entirely in software simulations. Early research concentrated on the potential applications opened-up by the raw speed ad- vantage of dedicated digital hardware over software simulation on a general- purpose computer. This book is an attempt to show that there is more to it than that. In fact, a radically new viewpoint is possible, with fascinating consequences. This book was written as a doctoral thesis, submitted in September 1996. As such, it was a rather daring exercise in ruthless brevity. Believing that the contribution I had to make was essentially a simple one, I resisted being drawn into peripheral discussions. In the places where I deliberately drop a subject, this implies neither that it's not interesting, nor that it's not relevant: just that it's not a crucial part of the tale I want to tell here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45280432259223,"sku":"9781447134169","price":7277.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781447134169.webp?v=1769296305","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hardware-evolution-automatic-design-of-electronic-circuits-in-reconfigurable-hardware-by-artificial-evolution-9781447134169","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}