Principles in the evolutionary design of digital circuits—Part I

JF Miller, D Job, VK Vassilev - Genetic programming and evolvable …, 2000 - Springer
An evolutionary algorithm is used as an engine for discovering new designs of digital
circuits, particularly arithmetic functions. These designs are often radically different from …

Explorations in design space: Unconventional electronics design through artificial evolution

A Thompson, P Layzell… - IEEE Transactions on …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three hypotheses are formulated. First, in the" design space" of possible electronic circuits,
conventional design methods work within constrained regions, never considering most of …

Fault-tolerant evolvable hardware using field-programmable transistor arrays

D Keymeulen, RS Zebulum, Y Jin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents an evolutionary approach to the design of fault-tolerant VLSI (very large
scale integrated) circuits using EHW (evolvable hardware). The EHW research area …

Towards the automatic design of more efficient digital circuits

VK Vassilev, D Job, JF Miller - Proceedings. The Second NASA …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new methodology of evolving electronic circuits by which the
process of evolutionary design is guaranteed to produce a functionally correct solution. The …

On evolvable hardware

TGW Gordon, PJ Bentley - Soft computing in industrial electronics, 2002 - books.google.com
Electronic circuit production is a significant industry. Ever more complex behaviors are being
demanded from electronic circuits, fuelled by relentless improvements in circuit embodiment …

Variable length representation in evolutionary electronics

RS Zebulum, M Vellasco, MA Pacheco - Evolutionary Computation, 2000 - direct.mit.edu
This work investigates the application of variable length representation (VLR) evolutionary
algorithms (EAs) in the field of Evolutionary Electronics. We propose a number of VLR …

Evolving an adaptive digital filter

G Tufte, PC Haddow - … . The Second NASA/DoD Workshop on …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One important feature of signal processing is coping with noise. In a non-adaptive filter,
characteristics of the filter may be refined to remove noise. One method of achieving this is to …

Multi-objective evolutionary design and knowledge discovery of logic circuits based on an adaptive genetic algorithm

S Zhao, L Jiao - Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2006 - Springer
Evolutionary design of circuits (EDC), an important branch of evolvable hardware which
emphasizes circuit design, is a promising way to realize automated design of electronic …

Analog circuit design with a variable length chromosome

S Ando, H Iba - Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a system of evolving analog circuits based on a variable length
chromosome. Methods featured are the chromosome of a component list, the multi-stage …

Artificial evolution of active filters: a case study

RS Zebulum, MA Pacheco… - Proceedings of the First …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the application of artificial avolution to the synthesis of analog active
filters. The main objective of this research is the achievement of a new class of systems, with …