Evolvable hardware (EHW) has attracted increasing attention since the early 1990s with the
advent of easily reconfigurable hardware, such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) …

This paper describes an automated process for designing analog electrical circuits based on
the principles of natural selection, sexual recombination, and developmental biology. The …

A comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that
are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures. New approaches to …

This survey presents an overview of recent advances in the state of the art for computer-
aided design (CAD) tools for analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). Analog …

We describe a new method for determining component values and transistor dimensions for
CMOS operational amplifiers (op-amps). We observe that a wide variety of design objectives …

Analog circuit synthesis entails the creation of both the topology and the sizing (numerical
values) of all of the circuit's components. This paper presents a single uniform approach …

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 …

Evolvable hardware (EHW) has attracted increasing attentions since early 1990's with the
advent of easily reconfigurable hardware such as field programmable logic array (FPGA). It …

Analog synthesis tools have traditionally traded quality for speed, substituting simplified
circuit evaluation methods for full simulation in order to accelerate the numerical search for …

This paper presents an analog integrated circuit synthesis system based on an evolutionary
approach. The system contains several novel features. One of these is the high-performance …