{"product_id":"9781447134169","title":"Hardware Evolution: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits in Reconfigurable Hardware by Artificial Evolution","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHardware Evolution: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits in Reconfigurable Hardware by Artificial Evolution\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eThompson, Adrian\u003c\/h2\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 \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2012-02-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ISBN-10: 9781447134169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781447134169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4471-3414-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 117\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44358534496396,"sku":"9781447134169","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781447134169_bd9c4588-cc38-4bbc-b9c6-81ac70fa153e.jpg?v=1755108051","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781447134169","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}