Artificial life science explores the characteristics of living organisms. Embryonicelectronics introduces a new generation of fault-tolerant field-programmable arrays inspired bynature and appropriate for Artificial life research. Embryonic arrays use hardware redundancy andarray reconfiguration mechanisms to achieve fault tolerance. In this paper the k-out-of-m reliabilitymodel is used to analyze the reconfiguration strategies used in embryonic arrays. Two schemes, row-or column-elimination and cell-elimi...