Genetic algorithm techniques for 3-valued transistor design

Modern electronic circuits are fabricated from transistors, which are devices with two inputs and one output, Present day commercial circuits use electricity at a high and a low voltage to represent the values 0 and 1. In recent years it has become possible to build circuits that use light, transported through fiber wave guides, instead of electricity. If light is used then there is no particular reason to limit the set of values represented to E(2)=(0, 1). Active research goes on in the design of multiple-valued optical processors. The paper explores the use of genetic algorithms in the design of efficient 3-valued transistors. The object of the exploration is to develop a set of techniques that can be extended to the design of efficient 4-valued transistors