Novel Crossover for Evolvable Hardware
Atul Kumar Srivastava · 2013
Abstract: Evolvable hardware is a type classification of reconfigurable hardware. This gives designer run time hardware configuration facility that is optimized in many senses. The basic methodology of designing evolvable hardware comes from genetic algorithm. Genetic algorithm defines different operator on a given problem that are run iteratively to reach optimal solution. One such operator is crossover that inherits the content of parent chromosomes to next generation with some changes to give better offspring. In this paper we have analyzed different crossovers on digital circuits and proposed a novel crossover called dynamic crossover. Dynamic crossover is better compared to other crossover as it converge quickly which is one of the limitation with genetic algorithm. A detail analysis is performed using different types of crossover on the evolved hardware. Key words: Dynamic crossover Genetic algorithm Evolvable hardware Evolutionary Strategies