1st Edition

Evolutionary Electronics Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems by Genetic Algorithms

320 Pages 162 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

320 Pages 162 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

From the explosion of interest, research, and applications of evolutionary computation a new field emerges-evolutionary electronics. Focused on applying evolutionary computation concepts and techniques to the domain of electronics, many researchers now see it as holding the greatest potential for overcoming the drawbacks of conventional design techniques. Evolutionary Electronics: Automatic... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONICS
Evolutionary Design of Electronic Circuits: A Prospect of the area
Electronic Circuit Design: A Search Task
A Brief Survey of Evolutionary Electronics
INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
Basic Concepts of Natural Evolution
Putting these Ideas to Work: Evolutionary Computation
The Main Evolutionary Algorithms

ADVANCED TOPICS IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
Variable Length Representation Systems
Multiple-Objective Optimization
Speciation in Evolutionary Algorithms
Deception in Evolutionary Algorithms
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: A TOOL FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS OPTIMIZATION
Analog Chips Optimization
VLSI Digital Chips Optimization
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: A TOOL FOR ANALOG CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS
Analog Circuits Evolution
Discussion: Incorporating Sensitivity Analysis and Fault Tolerance into the Design Process
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: A TOOL FOR DIGITAL CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS
Representation
Evaluation
Circuits Synthesis
EVOLUTION OF CIRCUITS ON RECONFIGURABLE CHIPS
Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Field Programmable Analog Arrays
Evolvable Hardware: Evolving Circuits on Reconfigurable Chips
Discussion: Virtual Computing

FINAL REMARKS
Conclusions
Where are we going to?

Biography

Ricardo Salem Zebulum, Marco Aurelio Pacheco, Marley Maria Be Vellasco