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Evolving Variability-Tolerant CMOS Designs

James Alfred WalkerContact Information, James A. HilderContact Information and Andy M. TyrrellContact Information

(4)  Intelligent Systems Group, Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Abstract
As the size of CMOS devices is approaching the atomic level, the increasing intrinsic device variability is leading to higher failure rates in conventional CMOS designs. In this paper, two approaches are proposed for evolving unconventional variability-tolerent CMOS designs: one uses a simple Genetic Algorithm, whilst the other uses Cartesian Genetic Programming. Both approaches successfully evolve unconventional designs for logic gates, whilst an inverter design also shows signs of variability-tolerance.
The authors would like to thank all partners of the nano-CMOS project, especially the DMG at the University of Glasgow for their Randomspice program.

Contact Information James Alfred Walker
Email: jaw500@ohm.york.ac.uk

Contact Information James A. Hilder
Email: jah128@ohm.york.ac.uk

Contact Information Andy M. Tyrrell
Email: amt@ohm.york.ac.uk
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