by KIRSTEN A. MORRIS

Since typical evolutionary design systems encode only a single artifact with each individual, each time the objective changes a new set of individuals must be evolved. When this objective varies in a way that can be parameterized, a more general method is to use a representation in which a single individual encodes an entire class of artifacts. In addition to saving time by preventing the need ...

Feedback is a very powerful concept and has numerous applications. Examples of feedback systems abound in everyday life. For example, the thermostat on an air conditioner unit uses feedback to maintain a comfortable temperature within a room. Similiarly, our bodies use feedback to increase antibodies to fight off an infection. By definition, feedback is the process of combining the output of a ...

We introduce a simple hierarchical design technique for building high-performance self-timed components using dynamic domino-style circuits. This technique is useful for building handshaking style functional blocks and for self-timed data path components. We wrap the dynamic domino circuit in a wrapper that communicates using a request/acknowledge protocol and mediates the pre-charge/evaluate c...