ABSTRACT
This chapter and the following one represent the core of this book. We describe applications that go beyond the traditional scope of systems’ optimization in which Evolutionary Computation has been employed. Evolutionary algorithms are now used to handle the overall process of electronic circuit synthesis. Again, we split the case studies in analog and digital electronics. This chapter presents case studies on analog design, and Chapter 6 does the same for digital design. We describe the evolutionary synthesis of passive and active filters; the synthesis of amplifiers based on bipolar transistors, and the synthesis of a Digital to Analog Converter.
