Embryonics: Artificial Cells Driven by Artificial DNA

Embryonics is a long-term research project attempting to draw inspiration from the biological process of ontogeny, to implement novel digital computing machines endowed with better fault-tolerant capabilities. For this purpose FPGAs are extremely useful. However, throngh this project we designed MuxTree, a new coarse-grained FPGA, to implement our embryonic machines. This article focuses on the issues posed by the memory storage and the advances made to achieve more robust memory structures.

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