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Evolutionary Design of Gate-Level Polymorphic Digital Circuits
evolutionary design, digital circuits, polymorphic electronics
A method for the evolutionary design of polymorphic digital combinational
circuits is proposed. These circuits are able to perform different functions
(e.g. to switch between the adder and multiplier) only as a consequence of the
change of a sensitive variable, which can be a power supply voltage, temperature
etc. However, multiplexing of standard solutions is not utilized. The evolved
circuits exhibit a unique structure composed of multifunctional polymorphic gates
considered as building blocks instead. In many cases the area-efficient solutions
were discovered for typical tasks of the digital design. We demonstrated that it
is useful to combine polymorphic gates and conventional gates in order to obtain
the required functionality.
@inproceedings{BUT32779,
author="Lukáš {Sekanina}",
title="Evolutionary Design of Gate-Level Polymorphic Digital Circuits",
booktitle="Applications of Evolutionary Computation",
year="2005",
series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
volume="3449",
pages="185--194",
publisher="Springer Verlag",
address="Berlin",
isbn="978-3-540-25396-9",
url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/evohot05/evohot05.pdf"
}