Evolvable Hardware - Finding The Fitness of An Evolved Circuit

Finding The Fitness of An Evolved Circuit

The fitness of an evolved circuit is a measure of how well the circuit matches the design specification. Fitness in evolvable hardware problems is determined via two methods::

  • extrinsic evolution: all circuits are simulated to see how they perform
  • intrinsic evolution : physical tests are run on actual hardware.

In extrinsic evolution only the final best solution in the final population of the evolutionary algorithm is physically implemented, whereas with intrinsic evolution every individual in every generation of the EA's population is physically realized and tested.

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