Comparing different serial and parallel heuristics to design combinational logic circuits

In this paper, we perform a comparative study of different heuristics used to design combinational logic circuits. The use of local search hybridized with a genetic algorithm and the effect of parallelism are of particular interest in the study conducted. Our results indicate that a hybridization of a genetic algorithm with simulated annealing is beneficial and that the use of parallelism does not only introduce a speedup (as expected) in the algorithms, but also allows one to improve the quality of the solutions found.

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