US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Development of Evolvable Hardware Design Methodology

该奖项支持田纳西州库克维尔田纳西理工大学电气与计算机工程系Wagdy Mahmoud博士和埃及开罗电子研究所Alaa Sheta博士的联合研究项目。本研究的目标是开发一种设计和发展实用数字硬件设计的方法。研究人员计划开发一种方法，用于在现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）平台上自动化设计实用的可进化数字硬件。可进化硬件（EHW）方法是设计可重新配置和容错的硬件结构所必需的，这些硬件结构可以在极端恶劣的条件下正常运行多年，并适应环境的变化。该方法将解决EHW设计人员面临的两个挑战；可扩展性和可移植性，并将通过用进化技术取代传统的数字设计方法，实现硬件适应过程的自动化。系统的能力将通过两个数字运算电路的实现来证明。这些调查将促进健康卫生这一新兴的跨学科领域的发展。适用范围：可进化硬件（EHW）方法有许多应用，包括空间探索任务和远程操作电路。开发设计和发展实用数字硬件设计的方法需要将人工进化技术应用于硬件电路的设计过程。该项目应导致改进当前的设计技术或开发新的设计技术。这项研究工作将包括两所研究所的研究生，并可能导致这个有前途的领域的研究生课程的发展。

0323578MahmoudDescription: This award supports a joint research project between Dr. Wagdy Mahmoud, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee and Dr. Alaa Sheta, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. The goal of this research is to develop a methodology for designing and evolving practical digital hardware designs. The investigators plan to develop a methodology for automating the design of practical evolvable digital hardware on field programmable gate array (FPGA) platforms. Evolvable Hardware (EHW) methodology is necessary for designing hardware structures that are re-configurable and fault tolerant and that can operate properly for many years in extremely harsh conditions and adapt to changes in their environment. The methodology will address two challenges facing EHW designers; scalability and portability, and will enable automating the hardware adaptation process through the replacement of traditional digital design methods with evolutionary techniques. The capability of the system will be demonstrated through the implementation of two digital arithmetic circuits. The investigations will enhance the emerging and interdisciplinary field of EHW.Scope: The Evolvable Hardware (EHW) methodology has numerous applications including space exploration missions, and remotely operated circuitry. Developing the methodology for designing and evolving practical digital hardware designs requires the application of artificial evolution techniques to the design process of the hardware circuitry. The project should lead to improving current design techniques or to the development of new ones. The research work will include graduate students at the two institutes, and may lead to the development of graduate courses in this promising field.