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Transistor-level Evolution of Digital Circuits Using a Special Circuit Simulator
evolutionary design, digital circuit, transistor-level design
An evolutionary algorithm is used to design digital circuits at the transistor
level. In particular, various static CMOS circuits with up to four inputs were
evolved. The increase in the complexity of evolved circuits wrt existing circuits
evolved at the transistor level is primarily caused by two phenomena: the usage
of a specialized circuit simulator and restriction of the search space. Because
we restricted the search space to the set of "reasonable designs" we could
employ imperfect, but very fast circuit simulation. The usage of proposed
simulator allowed exploring more candidate designs than a conventional
Spice-based approach. However, in some cases, an incorrect behavior was detected
after validation of evolved circuits using Spice simulator.
@inproceedings{BUT30755,
author="Luděk {Žaloudek} and Lukáš {Sekanina}",
title="Transistor-level Evolution of Digital Circuits Using a Special Circuit Simulator",
booktitle="Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware",
year="2008",
series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
volume="5216",
pages="320--331",
publisher="Springer Verlag",
address="Berlin",
isbn="978-3-540-85856-0",
url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8665/"
}