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The Intrinsic Evolution of Virtex Devices Through Internet Reconfigurable Logic

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Gordon Hollingworth,

Andy TyrellAuthors Info & Claims

ICES '00: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

Pages 72 - 79

Published: 17 April 2000 Publication History

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This paper describes the implementation of an evolvable hardware system on the Virtex Family of devices. The evaluation of the circuits is done intrinsically by downloading a portion of the bitstream that describes the changes from the baseline circuit. This reconfiguration system is achieved through the use of the Xilinx JBits API to identify and extract the changing bitstream. This partial reconfiguration process is very much faster than the previous methods of complete reconfiguration, leading to the complete evolution of a simple circuit in less than half an hour.

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ICES '00: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

April 2000

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1792161.1792198
Zhu JLi YHe GXia X(2007)An intrinsic evolvable hardware based on multiplexer module arrayProceedings of the 7th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware10.5555/1792161.1792166(35-44)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2007
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Sekanina L(2003)Virtual reconfigurable circuits for real-world applications of evolvable hardwareProceedings of the 5th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware10.5555/1766731.1766753(186-197)Online publication date: 17-Mar-2003
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