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<p align="center"><b><font color="#3333FF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Welcome
to the JPL Evolvable Hardware Laboratory</font></b> </p>
<p>Mission Statement To develop and demonstrate self-reconfigurable circuits that
evolve directly in hardware on a VLSI chip. Self-reconfiguration is needed to
endow devices with the flexibility of in-situ, during the mission, adaptation
to unforeseen conditions and with enhanced fault-tolerance. Evolving directly
in hardware ensures validity of the solution, and speeds up the evolution orders
of magnitude compared to software simulations. A speed-up of more than four
orders of magnitude compared to a simulation on a Pentium II 300 Pro is targeted
for this effort. The evolved circuits will perform complex signal processing
functions, such as adaptive filtering and randomization. This development will
break new ground and demonstrate a new paradigm for the design of adaptive computing,
i.e. evolvable hardware. It will shape new tools and approaches, and it will
also establish a technology base that others can use. </p>
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