Publication detail

How to Evolve Complex Combinational Circuits From Scratch?

VAŠÍČEK, Z. SEKANINA, L.

Original Title

How to Evolve Complex Combinational Circuits From Scratch?

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

One of the serious criticisms of the evolutionary circuit design method is that it is not suitable for the design of complex large circuits. This problem is especially visible in the evolutionary design of combinational circuits, such as arithmetic circuits, in which a perfect response is requested for every possible combination of inputs. This paper deals with a new method which enables us to evolve complex circuits from a randomly seeded initial population and without providing any information about the circuit structure to the evolutionary algorithm. The proposed solution is based on an advanced approach to the evaluation of candidate circuits. Every candidate circuit is transformed to a corresponding binary decision diagram (BDD) and its functional similarity is determined against the specification given as another BDD. The fitness value is the Hamming distance between the output vectors of functions represented by the two BDDs. It is shown in the paper that the BDD-based evaluation procedure can be performed much faster than evaluating all possible assignments to the inputs. It also significantly increases the success rate of the evolutionary design process. The method is evaluated using selected benchmark circuits from the LGSynth91 set. For example, a correct implementation was evolved for a 28-input frg1 circuit. The evolved circuit contains less gates (a 57% reduction was obtained) than the result of a conventional optimization conducted by ABC. 

Keywords

evolutionary design, digital circuit, binary decision diagram

Authors

VAŠÍČEK, Z.; SEKANINA, L.

RIV year

2014

Released

12. 12. 2014

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Location

Piscataway

ISBN

978-1-4799-4480-4

Book

2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings

Pages from

133

Pages to

140

Pages count

8

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10673/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT111620,
  author="Zdeněk {Vašíček} and Lukáš {Sekanina}",
  title="How to Evolve Complex Combinational Circuits From Scratch?",
  booktitle="2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings",
  year="2014",
  pages="133--140",
  publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
  address="Piscataway",
  doi="10.1109/ICES.2014.7008732",
  isbn="978-1-4799-4480-4",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10673/"
}