IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems - Special issue on low power electronics and design
Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention & Problem Solving
Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention & Problem Solving
A Flexible Model of a CMOS Field Programmable Transistor Array Targeted for Hardware Evolution
ICES '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware
EH '99 Proceedings of the 1st NASA/DOD workshop on Evolvable Hardware
Toward Evolvable Hardware Chips: Experiments with a Programmable Transistor Array
MICRONEURO '99 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural, Fuzzy and Bio-Inspired Systems
Evolvable Hardware Solutions For Extreme Temperature Electronics
EH '01 Proceedings of the The 3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware
Explorations in design space: unconventional electronics designthrough artificial evolution
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Real-world applications of analog and digital evolvable hardware
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Invention and creativity in automated design by means of genetic programming
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Providing information from the environment for growing electronic circuits through polymorphic gates
GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual workshop on Genetic and evolutionary computation
ACS'07 Proceedings of the 7th Conference on 7th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computer Science - Volume 7
Cellular Automata-Based Development of Combinational and Polymorphic Circuits: A Comparative Study
ICES '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware
Transistor-Level Evolution of Digital Circuits Using a Special Circuit Simulator
ICES '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware
On bifunctional polymorphic gates controlled by a special signal
WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems
Gate-level optimization of polymorphic circuits using Cartesian genetic programming
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Evolution of polymorphic self-checking circuits
ICES'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware
Designing polymorphic circuits with evolutionary algorithm based on weighted sum method
ICES'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware
On the completeness of the polymorphic gate set
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Evolutionary design of reconfiguration strategies to reduce the test application time
ICES'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware
GRACE: generative robust analog circuit exploration
EuroGP'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computing
Evolutionary design of gate-level polymorphic digital circuits
EC'05 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computing
A SAT-based fitness function for evolutionary optimization of polymorphic circuits
DATE '12 Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Towards new applications of multi-function logic: image multi-filtering
DATE '12 Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
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This paper introduces the concept of polymorphic electronics (polytronics) -referring to electronics with superimposed built-in functionality. A function change does not require switches/reconfiguration as in traditional approaches. Instead, the change comes from modifications in the characteristics of devices involved in the circuit, in response to controls such as temperature, power supply voltage (VDD), control signals, light, etc. For example, a temperature-controlled polytronic AND/OR gate behaves as AND at 27掳C and as OR at 125掳C. The paper illustrates polytronic circuits in which the control is done by temperature, morphing signals, and VDD respectively. Polytronic circuits are obtained by evolutionary design/evolvable hardware techniques. These techniques are ideal for the polytronics design, a new area that lacks design guidelines/know-how,- yet the requirements/objectives are easy to specify and test. The circuits are evolved/synthesized in two different modes. The first mode explores an unstructured space, in which transistors can be interconnected freely in any arrangement (in simulations only). The second mode uses a Field Programmable Transistor Array (FPTA) model, and the circuit topology is sought as a mapping onto a programmable architecture (these experiments are performed both in simulations and on FPTA chips). The experiments demonstrate the polytronics concept and the synthesis of polytronic circuits by evolution.