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Our work introduces an evolutionary approach applied to the design of digital circuits. Particularly, we address the case of synthesising a controller for a simple CPU, a case study which has not been tackled by other authors so far. In order to cope with this problem, a novel circuit evaluation strategy has been employed; and new evolvable hardware systems paradigms derive from this technique. We show that the use of this new evaluation approach allows the achievement of smaller circuits and promises to be effective when the problem scales up. Furthermore, our methodology yields novel digital circuits comparing to conventional design.
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Zebulum, R.S., Pacheco, M.A., Vellasco, M. (1999). Evolutionary Systems Applied to the Synthesis of a CPU Controller. In: McKay, B., Yao, X., Newton, C.S., Kim, JH., Furuhashi, T. (eds) Simulated Evolution and Learning. SEAL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1585. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48873-1_48
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