An experiment on nonlinear synthesis using evolutionary techniques based only on CMOS transistors

Author

Botelho, João P B ; Sá, Leonardo B. ; Vieira, Pedro F. ; Mesquita, A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 July 2003

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

58

Abstract

An experiment to perform analog circuits synthesis, using evolutionary techniques applied to circuits containing only integrated MOS transistors, is discussed. MOS transistors can operate as capacitors, resistors, switches and bipolar transistors. In an intrinsic evolutionary context, this simplifies considerably the design of field programmable analog arrays. The limitations of the approach are discussed in the paper.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; band-pass filters; field programmable analogue arrays; genetic algorithms; high-pass filters; low-pass filters; nonlinear network synthesis; superconducting transistors; CMOS transistor; analog circuits synthesis; bipolar transistor; capacitor; complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor; evolutionary technique; field programmable analog array design; genetic algorithm; integrated MOS transistor; intrinsic evolutionary context; nonlinear synthesis; resistor; switch; Analog circuits; Biological cells; Bipolar transistors; Circuit synthesis; Circuit topology; MOS capacitors; MOSFETs; Network topology; Resistors; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolvable Hardware, 2003. Proceedings. NASA/DoD Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1977-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EH.2003.1217644

Filename

1217644