On Evolvable Hardware
G. W. Timothy Gordon, J. Peter Bentley · Studies in fuzziness and soft computing · 2002
Electronic circuit production is a significant industry. Ever more complex behaviors are being demanded from electronic circuits, fuelled by relentless improvements in circuit embodiment technologies. Consequently a bottleneck is developing at the point of circuit design. Traditional circuit design methodologies rely on rules that have been developed over many decades. However the need for human input to the increasingly complex design process means that modern circuit production takes one of two paths. The first is to employ more designers with greater expertise. This is expensive. The second is to simplify circuit design by imposing greater and greater abstraction to the design space. An example of this is the use of hardware description languages. This results in mounting waste of potential circuit behavior.