Evolvable Electronics
Prabhas Chongstitvatana
Chulalongkorn university, Thailand
Keynote lecture at The 23rd International Technical Conference on
Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2008), July
6-9, 2008, Shimonoseki, Japan.
Abstract
Presently there are many technologies available that make electronic
devices become far more flexible than before. The current
"programmable" or "reconfigurable" devices are available both for
digital and analog domain. These devices allow many new possibilities
in terms of making electronic circuits change with time. With this
"time-varying" circuit concept, many novel applications emerge. It is
possible to make an electronic system that "optimise" itself while
operating. For example, it is possible to time-multiplexing the use of
resources such that it minimises the energy or it maximises the
performance. In this talk, I will illustrate the marriage between
reconfigurable electronics and evolutionary algorithms. The combination
of the two allows on-line and continuous reconfiguration of electronic
circuits. An evolutionary algorithm can be used to adapt parameters of
a circuit. It also can be used to change the topology of the circuit.
The outline of my talk includes: the introduction to reconfigurable
electronics, a brief explanation of evolutionary algorithms, the use of
evolutionary algorithm in electronic design and many examples from the
current research in the field. (evolvable electronics = reconfigurable
electronics + evolutionary algorithms)
Biography
Prabhas Chongstitvatana earned Bachelor of Engineering (EE) from
Kasetsart University, Thailand in 1980 and Ph.D. from the department of
artificial intelligence, Edinburgh University, UK, in 1992.
Presently, he is a full professor with the department of computer
engineering, Chulalongkorn University. His research interests
included robotics, evolutionary computation and computer
architecture. The current work involves bioinformatics and grid
computing where he is actively promote the collaboration to create Thai
national grid for scientific computing. He is the member of
Thailand Engineering Institute, Thai Academy of Science and Technology,
Thai Robotics Society, Thai Embedded System Association and ECTI
Association of Thailand.