Building Knowledge into Developmental Rules for Circuit Design

Abstract

Inspired by biological development, we wish to introduce a circuit-DNA that may be developed to a given circuit design organism. This organism is a member of a Virtual EHW FPGA species that may be mapped onto a physical FPGA. A rule-based circuit-DNA, as used herein, provides a challenge to find suitable rules for artificial development of such an organism. Approaching this challenge, the work herein may be said to be of an investigative nature, to explore for developmental rules for developing even the simplest organism.

The artificial developmental process introduced herein, uses a knowledge rich representation including both knowledge of the circuit’s (organism’s) building blocks and local knowledge about neighbouring cells. Initial experiments for knowledge rich development on our virtual technology platform, are presented.