PRACTICAL PHYSICS: AN INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS OF EVOLVABLE CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS / WHY EVOLVABLE HARDWARE IS GOOD (AND BAD!) / TECHNOLOGY / EVOLVABLE HARDWARE VS EVOLVED HARDWARE / INTRINSIC VS EXTRINSIC EVOLUTION / ONLINE VS OF?INE EVOLUTION / EVOLVABLE HARDWARE APPLICATIONS / REFERENCES / FUNDAMENTALS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION WHAT IS AN EA? / COMPONENTS OF AN EA / REPRESENTATION / VARIATION / EVALUATION / SELECTION / POPULATION / TERMINATION CRITERIA / GETTING THE EA TO WORK / WHICH EA IS BEST? / RECONFIGURABLE DIGITAL DEVICES BASIC ARCHITECTURES / PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES / FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY / USING RECON?GURABLE HARDWARE / DESIGN PHASE / EXECUTION PHASE / EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS / FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW OF THE POETIC ARCHITECTURE / ORGANIC SUBSYSTEM / DESCRIPTION OF THE MOLECULES / DESCRIPTION OF THE ROUTING LAYER / DYNAMIC ROUTING / REMARKS / RECONFIGURABLE ANALOG DEVICES TRANSISTOR ARRAYS / THE NASA FTPA / THE HEIDELBERG FPTA / ANALOG ARRAYS / PUTTING EVOLVABLE HARDWARE TO USE SYNTHESIS VS ADAPTION / DESIGNING SELF-ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS / FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS / REAL-TIME SYSTEMS / CREATING FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS USING EHW / WHY INTRINSIC RECON?GURATION FOR ONLINE SYSTEMS? / QUANTIFYING INTRINSIC RECON?GURATION TIME / PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE / MINIMIZING RISK WITH ANTICIPATED FAULTS / MINIMIZING RISK WITH UNANTICIPATED FAULTS / SUGGESTED PRACTICES / EXAMPLES OF EHW-BASED FAULT RECOVERY / POPULATION VS FITNESS-BASED DESIGNS / EHW COMPENSATORS / ROBOT CONTROL / THE POETIC PROJECT / EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT / FUTURE WORK CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS TOPICS / DIGITAL DESIGN / ANALOG DESIGN / CIRCUIT ADAPTION TOPICS /