Title :
An evolutionary approach to system redesign
Author :
Heo, Dong-Hyun ; Parker, Alice C. ; Ravikumar, C.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper considers the system redesign problem where an existing digital electronic system must be redesigned for reasons such as better performance, technology upgrade, lower power, and so on. The designer may wish to retain certain design for purely, technical reasons or reasons of propriety. We presented an algorithm based on the evolutionary paradigm for optimally redesigning an existing design. A tool called GRAFT which implements the evolutionary algorithm is described
Keywords :
VLSI; circuit CAD; digital integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; GRAFT tool; digital electronic system; evolutionary algorithm implementation; evolutionary paradigm; system redesign; Algorithm design and analysis; CMOS technology; Design automation; Discrete cosine transforms; Electronics packaging; Evolutionary computation; Fabrication; Genetic programming; Multimedia systems; Power generation economics;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Design, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 Eleventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8224-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICVD.1998.646633
