The combinational logic circuits, which are performing some kind of logic function, can have several realizations. Realizations differ from each other, because of the elements of the database used in circuit. The test of one scheme realization do not necessarily fully verify mistakes of the other realization. The number of pathways in different realizations may also differ. The determination of dependence between test's propriety and the number of pathways for different circuits is the main task in this paper. After finding pathways in different realizations of circuit, and comparing these pathways, the number of fictional pathways in every realization is detected. Special software was developed for calculating pathways in VHDL combinational logic circuits. The software was used for testing pathway calculation operations of circuit realization and for comparing pathways of realizations. The main purpose of this paper was to develop software for pathways in VHDL circuit calculation, to perform experiments using this software, and to estimate the dependence for the number of pathways. The practise of developed software is wide. This system may be implemented for optimising the algorithm of test generator. Usually the test generation program generates more than minimum of possible tests. If the number of pathways in circuit is known, the developed software will help to optimise the algorithm of test generation so that the minimum number of tests would be generated.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-06-01T15:26:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 franciscoaugustolimamanfrini.pdf: 2355106 bytes, checksum: 0c2126ac87b502d91fbb53cda2fa0b2a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-06-02T15:56:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 franciscoaugustolimamanfrini.pdf: 2355106 bytes, checksum: 0c2126ac87b502d91fbb53cda2fa0b2a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-02T15:56:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 franciscoaugustolimamanfrini.pdf: 2355106 bytes, checksum: 0c2126ac87b502d91fbb53cda2fa0b2a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / A computação evolucionista tem sido aplicada em diversas áreas do conhecimento para a descoberta de projetos inovadores. Quando aplicada na concepção de circuitos digitais o problema da escalabilidade tem limitado a obtenção de circuitos complexos, sendo apontado como o maior problema em hardware evolutivo. O aumento do poder dos métodos evolutivos e da eficiência da busca constitui um importante passo para melhorar as ferramentas de projeto. Este trabalho aborda a computação evolutiva aplicada ao projeto de circuito lógicos combinacionais e cria estratégias para melhorar o desempenho dos algoritmos evolutivos. As três principais contribuições resultam dessa tese são: (i) o desenvolvimento de uma nova metodologia que ajuda a compreensão das causas fundamentais do sucesso/fracasso evolutivo;(ii)a proposta de uma heurística para a semeadura da população inicial; os resultados mostram que existe uma correlação entre a topologia da população inicial e a região do espaço de busca explorada; e (iii) a proposta de um novo operador de mutação denominado Biased SAM; verificou-se que esta mutação pode guiar de maneira efetiva a busca. Nos experimentos realizados o operador proposto é melhor ou equivalente ao operador de mutação tradicional. Os experimentos computacionais que validaram as respectivas contribuições foram feitos utilizando circuitos benchmark da literatura. / Evolutionary computation has been applied in several areas of knowledge for discovering Innovative designs. When applied to a digital circuit design the scalability problem has limited the obtaining of complex circuits, being pointed as the main problem in the evolvable hardware field. Increased power of evolutionary methods and efficiency of the search constitute an important step towards improving the design tool. This work approaches the evolutionary computation applied to the design of combinational logic circuits and createsstrategiestoimprovetheperformanceofevolutionaryalgorithms. The three main contributions result from this thesis are: (i) the developement of a methodology that helps to understand the success/failure of the genetic modifications that occur along the evolution; (ii) a heuristic proposed for seeding the initial population; the results showed there is a correlation between the topology of the initial population and the region of the search space which is explored. (iii) a proposal of a new mutation operator referred to as Biased SAM; it is verified that this operator can guide the search. In the experiments performed the mutation proposed is better than or equivalent to the traditional mutation. The computational experiments that prove the efficiency of the respective contributions were made using benchmark circuits of the literature.

This diploma thesis deals with the use of Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) for combinational circuits design. The work addresses the issue of optimizaion of selected logic circuts, arithmetic adders and multipliers, using Cartesian Genetic Programming. The implementation of the CPG is performed in the Python programming language with the aid of NumPy, Numba and Pandas libraries. The method was tested on selected examples and the results were discussed.