An evolutionary-based methodology for symbolic simplification of analog circuits using genetic algorithm and simulated annealing. Issue 3 (15th February 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shokouhifar, Mohammad; Jalali, Ali
• Is Part Of: Expert systems with applications. Volume 42:Issue 3(2015)
• Page Start: 1189
• Page End: 1201
• Publication Date: 2015-02-15
• Subjects: Expert systems (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Systèmes experts (Informatique) -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 006.33
• DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.09.030
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0957-4174

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="author-highlights" id="ab005"> <title id="st105">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="sp005"> <list id="l0005"> <list-item id="u0005"> <label></label> <p id="p0175">An evolutionary-based multi-objective methodology is proposed for automatic symbolic simplification of analog circuits.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0010"> <label></label> <p id="p0180">The simplified symbolic expressions are generated in MATLAB automatically from the input netlist of the circuit.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0015"> <label></label> <p id="p0185">A hybrid algorithm based on genetic algorithm and simulated annealing is used to test the proposed simplification criterion.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0020"> <label></label> <p id="p0190">The proposed algorithm is successfully tested on three analog circuits, and its results are compared with HSPICE.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>