Embryonic bio-inspired hardware technology provides a new idea for designing large scale integrated circuit with high reliability.In the bus-based embryonic electronic cell array (BEECA) with determined scales
an idle cells optimum selection method is proposed
which finds a balance between hardware resource consumption and reliability.Based on the multi-state system reliability theory
a universal generating function (UGF) is used to establish BEECA reliability model.The consumed number of MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistors is used to measure BEECA hardware resource consumption
and BEECA hardware resource consumption model is established.Based on the established reliability model and hardware resource consumption model
the unoccupied cell number in the array is selected under the constraints of the design.The simulation experiment and analysis indicate that the proposed design can optimize the selection
and in the meanwhile the selection can avoid the dependence on the experiences.