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Acceleration of Transistor-Level Evolution using Xilinx Zynq Platform

MRÁZEK Vojtěch and VAŠÍČEK Zdeněk. Acceleration of Transistor-Level Evolution using Xilinx Zynq Platform. In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2014, pp. 9-16. ISBN 978-1-4799-4480-4. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICES.2014.7008716
Czech title
Akcelerace evolučního návrhu obvodů na úrovni tranzistorů pomocí platformy Xilinx Zynq
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
URL
Keywords

Xilinx Zynq, transistor-level evolution, evolutionary design, combinational circuit

Abstract


The aim of this paper is to introduce a new accelerator
developed to address the problem of evolutionary synthesis
of digital circuits at transistor level. The proposed accelerator,
based on recently introduced Xilinx Zynq platform, consists of
a discrete simulator implemented in programmable logic and an
evolutionary algorithm running on a tightly coupled embedded
ARM processor. The discrete simulator was introduced in order to
achieve a good trade-off between the precision and performance
of the simulation of transistor-level circuits. The simulator is
implemented using the concept of virtual reconfigurable circuit
and operates on multiple logic levels which enables to evaluate the
behavior of candidate transistor-level circuits at a reasonable level
of detail. In this work, the concept of virtual reconfigurable circuit
was extended to enable bidirectional data flow which represents
the basic feature of transistor level circuits. According to the
experimental evaluation, the proposed architecture speeds up the
evolution in one order of magnitude compared to an optimized
software implementation. The developed accelerator is utilized
in the evolution of basic logic circuits having up to 5 inputs. It
is shown that solutions competitive to the circuits obtained by
conventional design methods can be discovered.

Published
2014
Pages
9-16
Proceedings
2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings
Conference
IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Orlando, US
ISBN
978-1-4799-4480-4
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Place
Piscataway, US
DOI
UT WoS
000361481400002
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10783,
   author = "Vojt\v{e}ch Mr\'{a}zek and Zden\v{e}k Va\v{s}\'{i}\v{c}ek",
   title = "Acceleration of Transistor-Level Evolution using Xilinx Zynq Platform",
   pages = "9--16",
   booktitle = "2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings",
   year = 2014,
   location = "Piscataway, US",
   publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
   ISBN = "978-1-4799-4480-4",
   doi = "10.1109/ICES.2014.7008716",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10783"
}
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