Tempesti G, Mange D, Stauffer A
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Logic Systems Laboratory IN-Ecublens Lausanne CH-1015 CH.
Artif Life. 1998 Summer;4(3):259-82. doi: 10.1162/106454698568585.
Biological organisms are among the most intricate structures known to man, exhibiting highly complex behavior through the massively parallel cooperation of numerous relatively simple elements, the cells. As the development of computing systems approaches levels of complexity such that their synthesis begins to push the limits of human intelligence, engineers are starting to seek inspiration in nature for the design of computing systems, both at the software and at hardware levels. We present one such endeavor, notably an attempt to draw inspiration from biology in the design of a novel digital circuit: a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). This reconfigurable logic circuit will be endowed with two features motivated and guided by the behavior of biological systems: self-replication and self-repair.
生物有机体是人类已知的最复杂的结构之一，通过众多相对简单的元素——细胞的大规模并行协作展现出高度复杂的行为。随着计算系统的发展接近复杂程度的极限，以至于其合成开始挑战人类智能的极限，工程师们开始在自然界中寻找计算系统设计的灵感，包括软件和硬件层面。我们展示了这样一项努力，特别是在设计一种新型数字电路——现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）时从生物学中汲取灵感的尝试。这种可重构逻辑电路将具备受生物系统行为激发和引导的两个特性：自我复制和自我修复。
