Self-replicating hardware for reliability
Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Mange, Pierre-André Mudry, Joël S. Rossier, André Stauffer · ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems · 2007
The multicellular structure of biological organisms and the interpretation in each of their cells of a chemical program (the DNA string or genome ) is the source of inspiration for the Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project, whose final objective is the design of highly robust integrated circuits, endowed with properties usually associated with the living world: self-repair and self-replication. In this article, we provide an overview of our latest research in the domain of the self-replication of processing elements within a programmable logic substrate, a key prerequisite for achieving system-level fault tolerance in our bio-inspired approach.