Modeling and Simulation of Embryonic
Hardware Structures Designed on FPGA-based
Artificial Cell Network Topologies
Cs. Szász, V. Chindriş, L. Szabó
Department of Electrical Engineering
Technical University of Cluj, 400020, Romania
e-mail: Csaba.Szasz@edr.utcluj.ro
Abstract — The cell-based structure, which makes up the
majority of biological organisms, involve nearly perfect self-
organization, self-reproduction (multiplying), and fault-
tolerance properties in a well organized hierarchical
mechanism. By adapting these mechanisms and capabilities
from nature, scientific approaches have helped researches
understand related phenomena and associated with
principles to engine complex novel digital systems and
improve their capability. Founded by these observations, the
paper
is
focused on computer-aided modeling and
simulation of embryonic hardware configurations designed
on FPGA-based artificial
cell
network
topologies.
Own developed artificial cell model and artificial organism
models are proposed, as basic components of a four level
embryonic hardware structures. These models are careful
tested through computer-aided investigations, using a
specially developed software toolkit designed for VLSI
systems real-time simulation operations.
I.
INTRODUCTION
As well-known, the latest generations of VLSI (Very
Large Scale Integrated) circuit’s-based digital systems are
characterized by highly computational and processing
power, implemented on complex hardware architectures.
Beside of its huge benefits in the control solutions
implementation, unfortunately they introduce for designer
engineers also a lot of difficulties booth in the fault
detection and fault elimination operations [1], [2].
The solution from all these inconveniences seems to be
offered by researchers from microelectronic sciences
which have early discovered, that, by adopting self-
healing and surviving mechanisms of biological
organisms from nature, becomes possible to design
complex novel digital syste