Source:
Proceedings of Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture Conference, Plymouth, England (1998)
URL:
http://www.genetic-programming.com/jkpdf/acdm1998.pdf
Keywords:
genetic algorithms;
genetic programming
Abstract:
The design (synthesis) of analog electrical circuits
entails the creation of both the topology and sizing
(numerical values) of all of the circuit's components.
There has previously been no general automated
technique for automatically designing an analog
electrical circuit from a high-level statement of the
circuit's desired behavior. This paper shows how
genetic programming can be used to automate the design
of both the topology and sizing of a suite of five
prototypical analog circuits, including a lowpass
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
five of these genetically evolved circuits constitute
instances of an evolutionary computation technique
solving a problem that is usually thought to require
human intelligence.