Comparison among evolutionary algorithms and classical optimization methods for circuit design problems

2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE CEC 2005. Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 765-772

  Anile, Angelo Marcello ^a   Rascunà, Rosario ^a   Cutello, Vincenzo ^a   Nicosia, Giuseppe ^a   Spinella, Salvatore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

CIRCUIT DESIGN; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; STANDARD METRICS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIERS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 27144496631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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