{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2097994880","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/eh.2003.1217657","title":"The evolutionary design and synthesis of non-linear digital VLSI systems","display_name":"The evolutionary design and synthesis of non-linear digital VLSI systems","publication_year":2003,"publication_date":"2003-11-04","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2097994880","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/eh.2003.1217657","mag":"2097994880"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/eh.2003.1217657","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/eh.2003.1217657","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, 2003. Proceedings.","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5034153850","display_name":"R. Thomson","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I98677209","display_name":"University of Edinburgh","ror":"https://ror.org/01nrxwf90","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I98677209"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"R. Thomson","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK","Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Edinburgh, UK"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I98677209"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Edinburgh, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I98677209"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5022272531","display_name":"Tughrul Arslan","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-5803"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I98677209","display_name":"University of Edinburgh","ror":"https://ror.org/01nrxwf90","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I98677209"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"T. Arslan","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK","Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Edinburgh, UK"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I98677209"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Edinburgh, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I98677209"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":1.4065,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":6,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.85269507,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"1802","issue":null,"first_page":"125","last_page":"134"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11975","display_name":"Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11975","display_name":"Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10100","display_name":"Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research","score":0.9940000176429749,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10848","display_name":"Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms","score":0.9905999898910522,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1703","display_name":"Computational Theory and Mathematics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/netlist","display_name":"Netlist","score":0.8951555490493774},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/verilog","display_name":"Verilog","score":0.7503370046615601},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/very-large-scale-integration","display_name":"Very-large-scale integration","score":0.7279148101806641},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.6337952613830566},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/adder","display_name":"Adder","score":0.5988859534263611},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/population","display_name":"Population","score":0.42399269342422485},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/field-programmable-gate-array","display_name":"Field-programmable gate array","score":0.31439951062202454},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-hardware","display_name":"Computer hardware","score":0.2800614833831787},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/embedded-system","display_name":"Embedded system","score":0.2577643394470215}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C177650935","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1760303","display_name":"Netlist","level":2,"score":0.8951555490493774},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779030575","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q827773","display_name":"Verilog","level":3,"score":0.7503370046615601},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C14580979","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q876049","display_name":"Very-large-scale integration","level":2,"score":0.7279148101806641},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.6337952613830566},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C164620267","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q376953","display_name":"Adder","level":3,"score":0.5988859534263611},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2908647359","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2625603","display_name":"Population","level":2,"score":0.42399269342422485},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C42935608","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190411","display_name":"Field-programmable gate array","level":2,"score":0.31439951062202454},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C9390403","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3966","display_name":"Computer hardware","level":1,"score":0.2800614833831787},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C149635348","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193040","display_name":"Embedded system","level":1,"score":0.2577643394470215},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C149923435","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37732","display_name":"Demography","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C82876162","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17096504","display_name":"Latency (audio)","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C76155785","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q418","display_name":"Telecommunications","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/eh.2003.1217657","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/eh.2003.1217657","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, 2003. Proceedings.","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.482.8965","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.482.8965","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~slig/papers/thomson_nasa_03.pdf","raw_type":"text"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.5899999737739563,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/9","display_name":"Industry, innovation and infrastructure"}],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":25,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1486894692","https://openalex.org/W1576818901","https://openalex.org/W1578458555","https://openalex.org/W1595498733","https://openalex.org/W1639032689","https://openalex.org/W1734028302","https://openalex.org/W1775913388","https://openalex.org/W1865434818","https://openalex.org/W1919765549","https://openalex.org/W1949971604","https://openalex.org/W1991777572","https://openalex.org/W2030566663","https://openalex.org/W2077881312","https://openalex.org/W2103244632","https://openalex.org/W2105758312","https://openalex.org/W2157020287","https://openalex.org/W2159827446","https://openalex.org/W2169484940","https://openalex.org/W3023540311","https://openalex.org/W3154375024","https://openalex.org/W4292333472","https://openalex.org/W6638085146","https://openalex.org/W6639150868","https://openalex.org/W6640714188","https://openalex.org/W6648297088"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4243305727","https://openalex.org/W2145339442","https://openalex.org/W3217774925","https://openalex.org/W2015155483","https://openalex.org/W2004826944","https://openalex.org/W2126882773","https://openalex.org/W2387264083","https://openalex.org/W2544421437","https://openalex.org/W1935030095","https://openalex.org/W2604877941"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"paper":[1],"describes":[2],"a":[3,24,31,119,162],"multi-objective":[4],"evolutionary":[5],"algorithm":[6],"(EA)":[7],"system":[8,124],"for":[9,23,134],"the":[10,21,37,74,79,89,94,107,110,115,135,143,146],"synthesis":[11],"of":[12,73,81,97,100,104,109,117,121,137,145],"efficient":[13],"non-linear":[14,25],"VLSI":[15],"circuit":[16,56],"modules.":[17],"The":[18,42,55,71,102,123,149],"EA":[19,75,111],"takes":[20],"specification":[22],"block,":[26],"and":[27,53,68,92,140],"converts":[28],"it":[29],"into":[30],"technology":[32],"independent":[33],"netlist,":[34],"specified":[35],"in":[36,161],"Verilog":[38],"hardware":[39,43],"description":[40],"language.":[41],"designs":[44,57,152],"are":[45,59,61,86,132],"based":[46],"upon":[47],"highlevel":[48],"components":[49],"such":[50],"as":[51,155,157],"adders":[52],"multipliers.":[54],"that":[58],"produced":[60],"near-optimal":[62],"with":[63,127],"respect":[64],"to":[65],"silicon":[66],"area":[67],"longest-path":[69],"delay.":[70],"performance":[72],"is":[76,125],"enhanced":[77],"through":[78],"use":[80,103],"local":[82],"searches.":[83],"These":[84],"searches":[85,105],"embedded":[87],"within":[88],"genetic":[90],"operators,":[91],"enable":[93],"rapid":[95],"evaluation":[96],"large":[98,156],"numbers":[99],"designs.":[101,148],"increases":[106],"power":[108],"system,":[112],"without":[113],"forfeiting":[114],"benefits":[116],"using":[118],"population":[120],"solutions.":[122],"demonstrated":[126],"several":[128],"test":[129],"problems.":[130],"Results":[131],"presented":[133],"discovery":[136],"correct":[138],"designs,":[139],"also":[141],"regarding":[142],"quality":[144],"evolved":[147],"most":[150],"complex":[151],"have":[153],"areas":[154],"200,000/spl":[158],"mu/m/sup":[159],"2/":[160],"0.18/spl":[163],"mu/m":[164],"technology.":[165]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-06-11T09:08:48.828518","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}