28-06-2010, 11:36 PM
EMBRYONIC APPROACH TO INTEGRATED CHIPS
ABSTRACT
Present day computing systems are designed from the very beginning to face some challenging problems.One of the main issues is testability ,or how to be able to verify that a system functions up to its specifications another is fault tolerance,or how to make the system continue to function properly even while faults are occurring.Though there are techniques developed to satisfy both constraints ,engineers have found another source of inspiration and closer than they thought.The answer could lie in adopting mechanisms tested and refined by nature ever since life began on earth:bio-inspiration. Embryonics architecture is based on four hierarchical levels of organization. (1) The basic primitive of our system is the molecule, a multiplexer-based element of a novel programmable circuit. (2) A finite set of molecules makes up a cell, essentially a small processor with an associated memory. (3) A finite set of cells makes up an organism, an application-specific multiprocessor system. (4) The organism can itself replicate, giving rise to a population of identical organisms. We begin by describing in detail the The inspiration of the embryonics project is the astounding parallelism present in nature .Embryonics tries to adapt some of the development processes of multicellular organisms to the purpose of designing novel,robust architectures for massive paralleluism in silicon.It is biology that made possible the miracle of contemplating the successfully operating human organism.There are astounding biological features that makes engineers think about a new way of designing novel electronic systems.A bio-inspired computing system would theoretically be capable of online self testing and self repairing
ABSTRACT
Present day computing systems are designed from the very beginning to face some challenging problems.One of the main issues is testability ,or how to be able to verify that a system functions up to its specifications another is fault tolerance,or how to make the system continue to function properly even while faults are occurring.Though there are techniques developed to satisfy both constraints ,engineers have found another source of inspiration and closer than they thought.The answer could lie in adopting mechanisms tested and refined by nature ever since life began on earth:bio-inspiration. Embryonics architecture is based on four hierarchical levels of organization. (1) The basic primitive of our system is the molecule, a multiplexer-based element of a novel programmable circuit. (2) A finite set of molecules makes up a cell, essentially a small processor with an associated memory. (3) A finite set of cells makes up an organism, an application-specific multiprocessor system. (4) The organism can itself replicate, giving rise to a population of identical organisms. We begin by describing in detail the The inspiration of the embryonics project is the astounding parallelism present in nature .Embryonics tries to adapt some of the development processes of multicellular organisms to the purpose of designing novel,robust architectures for massive paralleluism in silicon.It is biology that made possible the miracle of contemplating the successfully operating human organism.There are astounding biological features that makes engineers think about a new way of designing novel electronic systems.A bio-inspired computing system would theoretically be capable of online self testing and self repairing