Introduction --;Context --;Inspiration --;Evolutionary Algorithms for Electronic Design: Other Approaches --;Multi-Criteria EAs: Area, Power, Speed and Testability --;Unconstrained Structure and Dynamics --;The Relationship Between Intrinsic Hardware Evolution and Conventional Design Techniques --;Unconstrained Structure --;Unconstrained Dynamics --;The Relationship Between Intrinsic Hardware Evolution and Natural Evolution --;Parsimony and Fault Tolerance --;Insensitivity to Genetic Mutations --;Engineering Consequences of Mutation-Insensitivity --;Explicitly Specifying Fault-Tolerance Requirements --;Adaptation to Faults --;Fault Tolerance Through Redundancy --;Summary --;Demonstration --;Future Work --;Engineering Tolerances --;Applications.
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A study of hardware evolution. It uses a series of experiments to explore the practicalities of removing the constraints on circuit structure and dynamics which are normally needed to permit design abstractions, culminating in a simple but non-trivial application.