Evolvable Hardware
    

The Evolved Radio and its Implications for Modelling the Evolution of Novel Sensors
Jon Bird and Paul Layzell, proceedings of Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2002).pp1836-1841

Hardware Evolution: On the Nature of Artificially Evolved Electronic Circuits
Paul Layzell, D.Phil. thesis, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS), 2001
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Understanding Inherent Qualities of Evolved Circuits: Evolutionary History as a Predictor of Fault Tolerance
Paul Layzell and Adrian Thompson,  in proceedings of Third Int. Conf. on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES2000)  Vol. 1801 of LNCS, Springer. April, 2000. pp 133-142
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Inherent Qualities of Circuits Designed by Artificial Evolution: A Preliminary Study of Populational Fault Tolerance
Paul Layzell,  in proceedings of EH99,  The First NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, July 19 - 21, 1999, Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology
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Reducing Hardware Evolution's Dependency on FPGAs
Paul Layzell,  in proceedings of MicroNeuro '99,  7th International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural, Fuzzy and Bio-inspired Systems. IEEE Computer Society, CA. April 1999. pp171-8
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Analysis of Unconventional Evolved Electronics
Adrian Thompson and Paul Layzell. in Communications of the ACM, Xin Yao (Ed.), Vol. 42, No. 4, April 1999.
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A New Research Tool for Intrinsic Hardware Evolution
Paul Layzell. In: Proceedings of Second Int. Conf. on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES98)  September, 1998
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The 'Evolvable Motherboard'. A test Platform for the Research of Intrinsic Hardware Evolution
Paul Layzell. Cognitive Science Research Paper 479 (1998).
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A stochastic heuristic for visualizing graph clusters in a bi-dimensional space prior to partitioning
P.Kuntz, D. Snyers and P. Layzell, accepted for publication in the Journal of Heuristics.
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A Colony of Ant-like Agents for Partitioning in VLSI Technology (Kuntz, P., Layzell, P., Snyers, D.)
In: Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Artificial Life (ECAL97), Husbands, P. and Harvey, I. (eds.), MIT Press 1997.
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