Publication detail

Instruction-based development: From evolution to generic structures of digital circuits

BIDLO, M. ŠKARVADA, J.

Original Title

Instruction-based development: From evolution to generic structures of digital circuits

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Evolutionary techniques provide powerful tools to design novel solutions for hard problems in different areas. However, the problem of scale (i.e. how to create a large, complex solution) represents a significant obstacle for the evolution of complex extensive systems. The computational development represents one of the approaches in the evolutionary design techniques that tries to overcome the problem of scale. In this paper an instruction-based developmental method is presented for the evolutionary design of generic structures of digital circuits. The developmental system involves a set of application-specific instructions constituting programs in order to solve a given task. In particular, the goal is to construct generic structures of combinational circuits. An evolutionary algorithm is utilized for the design of these programs that represent a mapping from the genotypes to the phenotypes during the evolutionary process, i.e. the prescription for the construction of target circuits. Two case-studies are presented in order to demonstrate the successfulness of this approach: (1) the evolutionary design of generic combinational multipliers and (2) the evolutionary design of generic sorting networks.

Keywords

Evolutionary algorithm, development, instruction, program, generic structure, digital circuit.

Authors

BIDLO, M.; ŠKARVADA, J.

RIV year

2008

Released

1. 11. 2008

ISBN

1327-2314

Periodical

International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems

Year of study

12

Number

3

State

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Pages from

221

Pages to

236

Pages count

16

URL

http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~bidlom/Papers/2008/kesj2008.pdf

BibTex

@article{BUT49419,
  author="Michal {Bidlo} and Jaroslav {Škarvada}",
  title="Instruction-based development: From evolution to generic structures of digital circuits",
  journal="International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems",
  year="2008",
  volume="12",
  number="3",
  pages="221--236",
  issn="1327-2314",
  url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~bidlom/Papers/2008/kesj2008.pdf"
}