Title :
Analog circuit design with a variable length chromosome
Author :
Ando, Shin ; Iba, Hitoshi
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
This paper proposes a system of evolving analog circuits based on a variable length chromosome. Methods featured are the chromosome of a component list, the multi-stage evolution, and the pressure on the circuit size. A set of experiments are described to confirm the system´s robustness, the scalability of a circuit, and the efficiency of time and the memory consumption. The first experiment shows the robustness supplied by the evolutionary method. The second one compares several types of chromosome implementation schemes. We also provide experiments to evaluate the multi-stage and scaling methods
Keywords :
analogue circuits; circuit CAD; circuit optimisation; evolutionary computation; analog circuit design; analog circuit evolution; circuit size; component list; memory consumption; multi-stage evolution; multi-stage method; robustness; scalability; scaling method; time consumption; variable length chromosome; Analog circuits; Analog integrated circuits; Biological cells; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Circuit topology; Genetic programming; Hardware; Robustness; Scalability;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on
Conference_Location :
La Jolla, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6375-2
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2000.870754