1st Edition

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

    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 Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems by Genetic Algorithms formally introduces and defines this area of research, presents its main challenges in electronic design, and explores emerging technologies. It describes the evolutionary computation paradigm and its primary algorithms, and explores topics of current interest, such as multi-objective optimization. The authors examine numerous evolutionary electronics applications, draw conclusions about those applications, and sketch the future of evolutionary computation and its applications in electronics.

    In coming years, the appearance of more and more advanced technologies will increase the complexity of optimization and synthesis problems, and evolutionary electronics will almost certainly become a key to solving those problems. Evolutionary Electronics is your key to discovering and unlocking the potential of this promising new field.

    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