Embryonic approach towards integrated circuits The growth and operation of all living beings are directed by the interpretation, in each of the cells, of a chemical program, the DNA string or genome. His process is the source of inspiration for Embryonics embryonic electronics),whose final objective is the design of highly robust integrated circuits, endowed with properties usually associated with the living world: self repair (cicatrisation) and self-replication.The embryonics architecture is based on four hierarchical levels of organization. 1. The basic primitive of our system is the molecule, a multiplexer-based element of a novel programmable circuit. 2. A finite set of molecules makes up a cell, essentially a small processor with an associated memory. 3. A finite set of cells makes up an organism, an application specific multiprocessor system. 4. The organism can itself replicate, giving rise to a population of identical organisms, capable of self replication and repair. Each of the artificial cell is characterized by a fixed architecture .Multicultural arrays can realize a variety of different organisms, all capable of self replication and self repair. In order to allow for a wide range of application we then introduce a flexible architecture, realized using a new type of fine-grained field-programmable gate array whose basic element, our molecule, is essentially a programmable multiplexer << EEE Seminar Topics