Operational amplifiers: An example for multi-objective optimization on an analog evolvable hardware platform

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3637 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 86-97

  Trefzer, Martin ^a   Langeheine, Jörg ^a   Meier, Karlheinz ^a   Schemmel, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; TRANSISTORS;

CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE TRANSISTOR ARRAY; REUSABLE OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33645964015     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11549703_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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