Large-Scale Analog Circuit Evolutionary Design Using a Real-Coded Scheme

Abstract:

Analog circuits are of great importance in electronic system design. Recent evolutionary design results are usually small-scale analog circuits. This paper proposes a real-coded mechanism and uses it in the large-scale analog circuit evolutionary design. The proposed scheme evolves the circuit topology and size to a uniformed continuous space, in which the circuit representation is closed and of causality. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can work successfully on many analog circuits with different kinds of characteristics. Comparing with other evolutionary methods before, the proposed scheme performs better on large-scale problems of circuit synthesis with higher search efficiency, lower computational complexity, and less computing time.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 220-223)
• Pages: 2036-2039
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.220-223.2036
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Su Min Jiao, Cai Hong Wang, Xue Mei Wang
• Keywords: Automated Design, Evolutionary Computation, Large-Scale Analog Circuit, Real-Code

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