Title :
VLSI circuit synthesis using a parallel genetic algorithm
Author :
Davis, Mike ; Liu, Luoping ; Elias, John G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA
Abstract :
A parallel implementation of a genetic algorithm used to evolve simple analog VLSI circuits is described. The parallel computer system consisted of twenty distributed SPARC workstations whose computational activity is controlled by the parallel environment coordination language Linda. Work-in-progress on using the parallel GA to realize optimized circuits and to discover new types of equivalent-function circuits is presented. The use of biologically inspired development rules to limit the scope of circuits generated by recombination operators to circuits that have an increased chance of surviving is briefly discussed
Keywords :
VLSI; analogue circuits; circuit CAD; genetic algorithms; parallel algorithms; Linda; VLSI circuit synthesis; genetic algorithm; parallel genetic algorithm; parallel implementation; Biology computing; Circuit synthesis; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Distributed computing; Genetic algorithms; Physics computing; Very large scale integration; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 1994. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1899-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICEC.1994.350033
