An evolutionary platform for developing next-generation electronic circuits

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Material

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2483-2488

  Hilder, James A ^a   Tyrrell, Andy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogue circuit design; CMOS; Genetic algorithms; Genetic programming; SPICE

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

ANALOG CIRCUIT DESIGN; SCHEMATIC BLOCKS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

EID: 34548088859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1274000.1274014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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