Abstract
We summarise two experiments using building blocks to
find analog electronic circuits on a CMOS Field
Programmable Transistor Array (FPTA). The FPTA features
256 programmable transistors whose channel geometry and
routing can be configured to form a large variety of
transistor level analog circuits. The transistor cells
are either of type PMOS or NMOS and are arranged in a
checkerboard pattern. Two case studies focus on
improving artificial evolution by using a building
block library of four digital gates consisting of a
NOR, a NAND, a buffer and an inverter. The methodology
is applied to the design of the more complex logic
gates XOR and XNOR as well as to the evolution of
circuits discriminating between square waves of
different frequencies.
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