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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R74512/01
Title:	Embryonic Hardware for Dependable Computing Systems
Principal Investigator:	Tyrrell, Professor A
Other Investigators:	Howard, Professor DM Young, Professor P
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Department:	Electronics
Organisation:	University of York
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 December 2002	Ends:	30 June 2006	Value (£):	308,038
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	New & Emerging Comp. Paradigms Parallel Computing
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 17 Oct 2001 Software Technologies Oct 2001 Deferred
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The proposal is to embed some distinctive characteristics of biological cellular systems into the design of prgrammable processor arrays in order to achieve rapid reconfiguration suitable for real-time applications. The main attractiveness of embryonic arrays resudes in their natural self-diagnosis and self-reconfiguration abilities, taking away the need for the designer to make more complex design decisions. This work is concerned with the design of electronic systems which can adapt and possibly learn from their environment in order to accomplish a specific task, particularly based on ideas from the ontogeny level of nature. Programmable array devices will allow us to map these characteristics onto silicon and make use of the self-diagnosis and self-healing properties biological organisms possess. The hypothesis is to have a particular array of programmable devices with their functionality defined by their position within the array. As and when cells fail, the coordinates of cells will change and thus their functionality will change. The configuration registers, specifying the overall hardware structure, are treated as the DNA of the array. The hypothesis will be tested on a real-time music application.
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