abstract = "Since the early 1990's researchers have begun to apply
evolutionary algorithms to design electronic circuits.
Nowadays it is evident that the evolutionary design
approach can automatically create efficient electronic
circuits in many domains. This tutorial surveys
fundamental concepts of evolutionary circuit design. It
introduces relevant search algorithms and basics of
digital circuit design principles. Several case studies
will be presented to demonstrate strength and weakness
of the method, including evolutionary synthesis of
gate-level circuits, image filter evolution in FPGA and
evolution of benchmark circuits for evaluation of
testability analysis methods. FPGAs will be presented
as accelerators for evolutionary circuit design and
circuit adaptation. Finally, it will be shown how to
cope with the so-called scalability problem of
evolutionary design which has been identified as the
most important problem from the point of view of
applications.",
notes = "Also known as \cite{2002140} Distributed on CD-ROM at
GECCO-2011.