Evolutionary design of electronic devices and circuits

Abstract

The paper addresses the use of evolutionary algorithms in the design of electronic devices and circuits. In particular, the paper introduces the idea of evolutionary design of nanodevices, and illustrates it with the design of a resonant tunneling diode. A second experiment, this time using CMOS microdevices, illustrates the use of evolutionary algorithms for circuit design. The experiments were facilitated by an evolutionary design tool developed around a parallel implementation of genetic algorithms (using PGAPack), and device/circuit simulators (NEMO and SPICE). It is speculated that in the future, devices and circuits may be simultaneously co-designed.