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This chapter describes the implementation of an innovative design automation tool, GENOM which explores the potentials of evolutionary computation techniques and state-of-the-art modeling techniques presented in the previous chapters. The main design options of the proposed approach will be here described and justified. First, an overview of the design architecture main building blocks will be provided. Then, the optimization algorithm kernel, as well as, the implemented functionalities are described. Finally, the design options are described in detail using experimental results on a few test cases.
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Barros, M.F.M., Guilherme, J.M.C., Horta, N.C.G. (2010). Analog IC Design Environment Architecture. In: Analog Circuits and Systems Optimization based on Evolutionary Computation Techniques. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 294. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12346-7_5
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