"978-1-4799-4480-4" . . "How to Evolve Complex Combinational Circuits From Scratch?" . . "2"^^ . "One of the serious criticisms of the evolutionary circuit design method is that it is not suitable for the design of complex large circuits. This problem is especially visible in the evolutionary design of combinational circuits, such as arithmetic circuits, in which a perfect response is requested for every possible combination of inputs. This paper deals with a new method which enables us to evolve complex circuits from a randomly seeded initial population and without providing any information about the circuit structure to the evolutionary algorithm. The proposed solution is based on an advanced approach to the evaluation of candidate circuits. Every candidate circuit is transformed to a corresponding binary decision diagram (BDD) and its functional similarity is determined against the specification given as another BDD. The fitness value is the Hamming distance between the output vectors of functions represented by the two BDDs. It is shown in the paper that the BDD-based evaluation pr" . . "How to Evolve Complex Combinational Circuits From Scratch?"@en . . . . "2"^^ . "One of the serious criticisms of the evolutionary circuit design method is that it is not suitable for the design of complex large circuits. This problem is especially visible in the evolutionary design of combinational circuits, such as arithmetic circuits, in which a perfect response is requested for every possible combination of inputs. This paper deals with a new method which enables us to evolve complex circuits from a randomly seeded initial population and without providing any information about the circuit structure to the evolutionary algorithm. The proposed solution is based on an advanced approach to the evaluation of candidate circuits. Every candidate circuit is transformed to a corresponding binary decision diagram (BDD) and its functional similarity is determined against the specification given as another BDD. The fitness value is the Hamming distance between the output vectors of functions represented by the two BDDs. It is shown in the paper that the BDD-based evaluation pr"@en . "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers" . . . "2014-12-09+01:00"^^ . "[7D2156D90269]" . . . "26230" . "How to Evolve Complex Combinational Circuits From Scratch?" . "evolutionary design, digital circuit, binary decision diagram"@en . "RIV/00216305:26230/14:PU112025" . . . . "19807" . . "RIV/00216305:26230/14:PU112025!RIV15-GA0-26230___" . . "Piscataway" . "10.1109/ICES.2014.7008732" . "2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings" . "How to Evolve Complex Combinational Circuits From Scratch?"@en . "Sekanina, Luk\u00E1\u0161" . "Orlando" . "8"^^ . . "Va\u0161\u00ED\u010Dek, Zden\u011Bk" . "P(GA14-04197S)" . .