Incollection,
The Design of Analog Circuits by Means of Genetic Programming
Evolutionary Design by Computers, chapter 16, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, USA, (1999)
Abstract
In this chapter, genetic programming succeeded in
evolving both the topology and sizing of six different
prototypical analog electrical circuits, including a
lowpass filter, a highpass filter, a tri-state
frequency discriminator circuit, a 60 dB amplifier, a
computational circuit for the square root, and a
time-optimal robot controller circuit. All six of these
genetically evolved circuits constitute instances of an
evolutionary computation technique solving a problem
that is usually thought to require human intelligence.
There has previously been no general automated
technique for synthesizing an analog electrical circuit
from a high-level statement of the circuit's desired
behavior. The approach using genetic programming to the
problem of analog circuit synthesis is general; it can
be directly applied to other problems of analog circuit
synthesis. Each of the problems in this chapter
illustrates the automatic creation of a satisfactory
way of "how to do it" from a high-level statement
of "what needs to be done."
