Extrinsic and Intrinsic Evolution of Multifunctional Combinational Modules

Multifunctional digital circuits are circuits composed of polymorphic (multifunctional) gates. In addition to its standard logic function (such as NAND), a polymorphic gate exhibits another logic function (such as NOR) which is activated under a specific condition, for example, when Vdd, temperature...

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Published in2006 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation pp. 2771 - 2778
Main Authors Sekanina, L., Martinek, T., Gajda, Z.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2006
Subjects
Circuit simulation
Circuit topology
Combinational circuits
Digital circuits
Field programmable gate arrays
Hardware
Information technology
Lighting
Logic functions
Temperature
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ISBN9780780394872
0780394879
ISSN1089-778X
DOI10.1109/CEC.2006.1688656

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Summary:Multifunctional digital circuits are circuits composed of polymorphic (multifunctional) gates. In addition to its standard logic function (such as NAND), a polymorphic gate exhibits another logic function (such as NOR) which is activated under a specific condition, for example, when Vdd, temperature or illumination reaches a certain level. This paper describes the evolutionary design of multifunctional combinational circuits at the gate level using a circuit simulator and in a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The FPGA-based implementation exhibits a significant speedup against a highly optimized software simulator.
ISBN:9780780394872
0780394879
ISSN:1089-778X
DOI:10.1109/CEC.2006.1688656