From here to there : Future robust EHW technologies for large digital designs

A long term goal of EHW is to evolve large complex de-signs for large devices. Evolving large complex designs is beyond our reach due to the resource greedy nature of evo-lutionary techniques. Manufacturers are also struggling to develop reliable large devices. In this work we focus on dig-ital circuits and consider their demands as well as the de-mands from evolutionary techniques and development tech-niques on the underlying technology. In addition, we con-sider the platform reliability problem. We discuss these is-sues in the light of today�s EHW technology, FPGAs, and a proposed fault tolerant technology Amorphous Computers. We then propose more reliable technologies which meet the demands of evolving large complex designs.