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Evolutionary design of relatively large combinational circuits with an extended stepwise dimension reduction

  • Zhifang Li*
  • , Wenjian Luo
  • , Lihua Yue
  • , Xufa Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, an eXtended Stepwise Dimension Reduction approach (XSDR) to evolutionary design of relatively large combinational logic circuits is proposed. In our previous work, a Stepwise Dimension Reduction approach (SDR) is introduced. The SDR divides a circuit into several layers. The layers are evolved one after another. However, some layers are difficult to be evolved. The XSDR improves the SDR by decomposing the original truth table of a layer to two truth tables. The new truth tables after decomposing are easy to be evolved. The proposed method has been tested with multipliers and the circuits taken from the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC) benchmark library. The experimental results demonstrate that the XSDR extensively improves the performance of the SDR in terms of the number of fitness evaluations and the computational time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication8th IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2009
Pages119-124
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event8th IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2009 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 12 Dec 200914 Dec 2009

Publication series

Name8th IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2009

Conference

Conference8th IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period12/12/0914/12/09

Keywords

  • Combinational logic circuit
  • Evolutionary algorithm
  • Evolvable hardware

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