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GRACE: Generative Robust Analog Circuit Exploration

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Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2006)

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We motivate and describe an analog evolvable hardware design platform named GRACE (i.e. Generative Robust Analog Circuit Exploration). GRACE combines coarse-grained, topological circuit search with intrinsic testing on a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) field programmable device, the Anadigm AN221E04. It is suited for adaptive, fault tolerant system design as well as CAD flow applications.

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    Michael A. Terry, Jonathan Marcus, Matthew Farrell, Varun Aggarwal & Una-May O’Reilly

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  1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. Centre of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra,  

    Ernesto Costa

  5. Dept. LCC, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

    Carlos Cotta

  6. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  7. INRIA Saclay - Ile-de-France, Parc Orsay Université, 4, rue Jacques Monod, 91893, ORSAY Cedex, France

    Evelyne Lutton

  8. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  9. Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Jason H. Moore

  10. Universidade de A Coruña, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  11. School of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  12. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

  13. Kyushu University, Japan

    Hideyuki Takagi

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Terry, M.A., Marcus, J., Farrell, M., Aggarwal, V., O’Reilly, UM. (2006). GRACE: Generative Robust Analog Circuit Exploration. In: Rothlauf, F., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3907. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11732242_30

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