A Brain-Inspired Hardware Architecture for Evolutionary Algorithms Based on Memristive Arrays

Wang, Zilu; Shi, Xinming; Yao, Xin

2023-09-01

10.1145/3598421

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS   Impact Factor & Quartile

1084-4309

1557-7309

Brain-inspired computing takes inspiration from the brain to create energy-efficient hardware systems for information processing, capable of performing highly sophisticated tasks. Systems built with emerging electronics, such as memristive devices, can achieve gains in speed and energy by mimicking the distributed topology of the brain. In this work, a brain-inspired hardware architecture for evolutionary algorithms is proposed based on memristive arrays, which can realize sparse and approximate computing as a result of the parallel analog computing characteristic of the memristive arrays. On this basis, an efficient evolvable brain-inspired hardware system is implemented. We experimentally show that the approach can offer at least a four orders of magnitude speed improvement. We also use experimentally grounded simulations to explore fault tolerance and different parameter settings in the implemented hardware system. The experimental results show that the evolvable hardware system, implemented based on the proposed hardware architecture, can continuously evolve toward a better system even if there are failures or parameter changes in the memristive arrays, demonstrating that the proposed hardware architecture has good adaptability and fault tolerance.

Memristor evolutionary algorithms brain-inspired architecture parallel analog computing circuit implementation

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Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China[62206121] ; Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China[2021M701578] ; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory[2020B121201001] ; Program for Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Enterpreneurial Teams[2017ZT07X386] ; Shenzhen Science and Technology Program[KQTD2016112514355531]

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Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Software Engineering

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Wang, Zilu,Shi, Xinming,Yao, Xin. A Brain-Inspired Hardware Architecture for Evolutionary Algorithms Based on Memristive Arrays[J]. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS,2023,28(5).

Wang, Zilu,Shi, Xinming,&Yao, Xin.(2023).A Brain-Inspired Hardware Architecture for Evolutionary Algorithms Based on Memristive Arrays.ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS,28(5).

Wang, Zilu,et al."A Brain-Inspired Hardware Architecture for Evolutionary Algorithms Based on Memristive Arrays".ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS 28.5(2023).