Detail publikace

Transistor-level Evolution of Digital Circuits Using a Special Circuit Simulator

ŽALOUDEK, L. SEKANINA, L.

Originální název

Transistor-level Evolution of Digital Circuits Using a Special Circuit Simulator

Typ

článek ve sborníku mimo WoS a Scopus

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

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.

Klíčová slova

evolutionary design, digital circuit, transistor-level design

Autoři

ŽALOUDEK, L.; SEKANINA, L.

Rok RIV

2008

Vydáno

1. 9. 2008

Nakladatel

Springer Verlag

Místo

Berlin

ISBN

978-3-540-85856-0

Kniha

Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

Edice

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Strany od

320

Strany do

331

Strany počet

12

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8665/

BibTex

@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/"
}