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Taking evolutionary circuit design from experimentation to implementation: some useful techniques and a silicon demonstration Adrian Stoica Ricardo S. Zebulum Xin Guo* Didier Keymeulen M. I. Ferguson Vu Duong

2 Outline Multi-function NAND/NOR circuit controlled by the power supply voltage (Vdd); –Programmable Logic Cells. New methods to ensure that circuits produced by evolution can be fabricated; The circuit was fabricated in a 0.5-micron CMOS technology and silicon tests showed good correspondence with the simulations.

3 Methods used in evolutionary design- for-fabrication Need for comprehensive testing to ensure that evolved solutions cover the intended operational space; Opposing to conventional design, no assumptions on the circuits’ performance outside the points tested during evolution can be reliably made.

4 Methods used in evolutionary design-for- fabrication Candidate logic circuits were tested in transient analysis for all possible transitions of combinations of input levels; For example, a circuit may respond well as an AND gate to input combinations of levels 0-0, 0-1, 1-0, 1-1. However, it may have a long switching time when inputs 1-1 following and not 1-0 as above, which is not tested in the simple scheme; Increased transient analysis: seven input configuration cases opposed to four.

5 Methods used in evolutionary design-for- fabrication Loading problem: preliminary experiments showed that evolved circuits were not able to drive similar circuits; Problem: Input/Output impedance of circuit to be evolved is not known in advance; Use of domain knowledge may help: in the case of logic gates we constrain the circuit inputs to connect only to transistor gate terminals, opposed to source or drain: increase input resistive impedance.

6 Methods used in evolutionary design-for- fabrication Timescale Problem: preliminary evolved logic gates changed their behavior over a "frequency range“, i.e. different responses when tested with slow/DC signals and faster input changing signals; Testing in micro-seconds timescale → Transient solutions; Testing in seconds timescale → Slow gates; Solution: extend the transient analysis duration to avoid transient solutions while keeping the transient analysis step small enough to assess the gate speed.

7 Evolved Circuit GA parameters: Population of 40 Individuals running for 400 generations

8 Circuit Layout

9 Circuit Response SimulationSilicon In1 In2 Out In1 In2 Out

10 Remarks Stable for  10% variations of Vdd and for temperatures –20 o C and 200 o C; Evolution obtained a creative novel topology more compact than what has been achieved by multiplexing a NAND and a NOR gate (conventional solution using a standard digital library with external voltage control). No conventional design is available with the logic function controlled by Vdd; Design a 6-transistor NAND/NOR gate controlled by Vdd is a complex task for a human designer; To be published in the IEE computing/digital techniques journal on evolvable hardware. To be published in Andy Tyrrell (editor), London, England.