Inproceedings,
Automatic Synthesis of the Topology and Sizing for Analog Electrical Circuits Using Genetic Programming
Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science, page 199--229. Jyvaskyla, Finland, John Wiley & Sons, (30 May - 3 June 1999)
Abstract
The design (synthesis) of an analog electrical circuit
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 creating the design for an
analog electrical circuit from a high-level statement
of the circuit's desired behavior. We have demonstrated
how genetic programming can be used to automate the
design of seven prototypical analog circuits, including
a lowpass filter, a highpass filter, a passband filter,
a bandpass filter, a frequency-measuring circuit, a 60
dB amplifier, a differential amplifier, a computational
circuit for the square root function, and a
time-optimal robot controller circuit. All seven of
these genetically evolved circuits constitute instances
of an evolutionary computation technique solving a
problem that is usually thought to require human
intelligence. The approach described herein can be
directly applied to many other problems of analog
circuit synthesis.
