===Thompson 1996===
Thompson, A. (1996, October). An evolved circuit, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics. In //International Conference on Evolvable Systems// (pp. 390--405). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

==Links==
  * https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63173-9_61
  * https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=4110687537919992613
  * {{private:thompson1996.pdf}} (internal lab link)

==Abstract==
‘Intrinsic’ Hardware Evolution is the use of artificial evolution --- such as a Genetic Algorithm --- to design an electronic circuit automatically, where each fitness evaluation is the measurement of a circuit's performance when physically instantiated in a real reconfigurable VLSI chip. This paper makes a detailed case-study of the first such application of evolution directly to the configuration of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Evolution is allowed to explore beyond the scope of conventional design methods, resulting in a highly efficient circuit with a richer structure and dynamics and a greater respect for the natural properties of the implementation medium than is usual. The application is a simple, but not toy, problem: a tone-discrimination task. Practical details are considered throughout.

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