@inbook { koza:1999:dacGP, title = {The Design of Analog Circuits by Means of Genetic Programming}, booktitle = {Evolutionary Design by Computers}, editor = {Peter Bentley}, year = {1999}, pages = {365--385}, publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann}, type = {incollection}, chapter = {16}, address = {San Francisco, USA}, abstract = {In this chapter, genetic programming succeeded in evolving both the topology and sizing of six different prototypical analog electrical circuits, including a lowpass filter, a highpass filter, a tri-state frequency discriminator circuit, a 60 dB amplifier, a computational circuit for the square root, and a time-optimal robot controller circuit. All six of these genetically evolved circuits constitute instances of an evolutionary computation technique solving a problem that is usually thought to require human intelligence. There has previously been no general automated technique for synthesizing an analog electrical circuit from a high-level statement of the circuit's desired behavior. The approach using genetic programming to the problem of analog circuit synthesis is general; it can be directly applied to other problems of analog circuit synthesis. Each of the problems in this chapter illustrates the automatic creation of a satisfactory way of "how to do it" from a high-level statement of "what needs to be done."}, keywords = {genetic algorithms, genetic programming}, ISBN = {1-55860-605-X}, URL = {http://www.genetic-programming.com/jkpdf/edc1999.pdf}, author = { Koza, John and III, Forrest H Bennett and Andre, David and Keane, Martin A.} }