A bird's eye view of FPGA-based Evolvable Hardware

The Evolvable Hardware research area has achieved very important progresses in the last two decades. However, it is still quite far from being as revolutionary as depicted in the earlier visionary papers. To have a positive impact on the Embedded Design Automation field, Evolvable Hardware systems should start to deal with more complex problems instances efficiently. This paper describes some interesting results achieved so far in the Evolvable Hardware area and gives some hints on what should be done for increasing the efficiency of Evolvable Hardware systems.