Challenges of evolvable hardware: past, present and the path to a promising future

PC Haddow, AM Tyrrell - Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2011 - Springer
Nature is phenomenal. The achievements in, for example, evolution are everywhere to be
seen: complexity, resilience, inventive solutions and beauty. Evolvable Hardware (EH) is a …

Cartesian genetic programming: its status and future

JF Miller - Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2020 - Springer
Cartesian genetic programming, a well-established method of genetic programming, is
approximately 20 years old. It represents solutions to computational problems as graphs. Its …

Evolvable hardware challenges: Past, present and the path to a promising future

PC Haddow, AM Tyrrell - Inspired by nature: essays presented to Julian F …, 2018 - Springer
The ability of the processes in Nature to achieve remarkable examples of complexity,
resilience, inventive solutions and beauty is phenomenal. This ability has promoted …

A novel tree-based representation for evolving analog circuits and its application to memristor-based pulse generation circuit

X Shi, LL Minku, X Yao - Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2022 - Springer
When applying evolutionary algorithms to circuit design automation, circuit representation is
the first consideration. There have been several studies applying different circuit …

Use of a multi-objective fitness function to improve cartesian genetic programming circuits

J Hilder, JA Walker, A Tyrrell - 2010 NASA/ESA Conference on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes an approach of using a multi-objective fitness function to improve the
performance of digital circuits evolved using CGP. Circuits are initially evolved for correct …

Evolution of electronic circuits

L Sekanina, JA Walker, P Kaufmann… - Cartesian Genetic …, 2011 - Springer
From the outset, the field of Evolvable Hardware has proved its potential for evolution of
innovative circuits and hardware adaptation and repair. CGP has been utilized in both tasks …

Optimising variability tolerant standard cell libraries

JA Hilder, JA Walker, AM Tyrrell - 2009 IEEE Congress on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes an approach to optimise transistor dimensions within a standard cell
library. The goal is to extract high-speed and low-power circuits which are more tolerant to …

A projection-based decomposition for the scalability of evolvable hardware

Y Tao, L Zhang, Y Zhang - Soft Computing, 2016 - Springer
Scalability is a main and urgent problem in evolvable hardware (EHW) field. For the design
of large circuits, an EHW method with a decomposition strategy is able to successfully find a …

The evolution of standard cell libraries for future technology nodes

JA Walker, JA Hilder, D Reid, A Asenov, S Roy… - … and Evolvable Machines, 2011 - Springer
Evolvable Hardware has been a discipline for over 15 years. Its application has ranged from
simple circuit design to antenna design. However, research in the field has often been …

Evolutionary design of polymorphic gates using ambipolar transistors

J Nevoral, R Ruzicka, V Mrazek - 2016 IEEE Symposium Series …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of the paper is to introduce a new approach to the evolutionary design of
polymorphic digital circuits conducted directly at transistor level. A discrete event-driven …