Publication detail

Evolutionary Design of Gate-Level Polymorphic Digital Circuits

SEKANINA, L.

Original Title

Evolutionary Design of Gate-Level Polymorphic Digital Circuits

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

A method for the evolutionary design of polymorphic digital combinational circuits is proposed. These circuits are able to perform different functions (e.g. to switch between the adder and multiplier) only as a consequence of the change of a sensitive variable, which can be a power supply voltage, temperature etc. However, multiplexing of standard solutions is not utilized. The evolved circuits exhibit a unique structure composed of multifunctional polymorphic gates considered as building blocks instead. In many cases the area-efficient solutions were discovered for typical tasks of the digital design. We demonstrated that it is useful to combine polymorphic gates and conventional gates in order to obtain the required functionality.

Keywords

evolutionary design, digital circuits, polymorphic electronics

Authors

SEKANINA, L.

RIV year

2005

Released

4. 4. 2005

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Location

Berlin

ISBN

978-3-540-25396-9

Book

Applications of Evolutionary Computation

Edition

LNCS 3449

Pages from

185

Pages to

194

Pages count

10

URL

http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/evohot05/evohot05.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT32779,
  author="Lukáš {Sekanina}",
  title="Evolutionary Design of Gate-Level Polymorphic Digital Circuits",
  booktitle="Applications of Evolutionary Computation",
  year="2005",
  series="LNCS 3449",
  pages="185--194",
  publisher="Springer Verlag",
  address="Berlin",
  isbn="978-3-540-25396-9",
  url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/evohot05/evohot05.pdf"
}