[HN Gopher] Circuit Synthesis for Analog Computing
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       Circuit Synthesis for Analog Computing
        
       Author : matt_d
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2021-05-18 13:39 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | wolfium3 wrote:
       | Came across a video by the author of this article
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       | "ASPLOS'20 - Session 2B - Noise-Aware Dynamical System
       | Compilation for Analog Devices with Legno"
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PU-6cWQQkE
        
       | emsal wrote:
       | > The fragment synthesis procedure uses a powerful, but
       | computationally expensive, algebraic rewrite-based search
       | algorithm to identify non-trivial compositions of blocks. The
       | performance of the algorithm depends on the complexity of the
       | target equation rather than the size of the overall system.
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       | Could the construction of these blocks, as well as the
       | composition step, benefit from training an RL agent on the state
       | space of circuit configurations/the action space of connecting
       | two blocks (or other operations)? Does any facet of the problem
       | make the idea of using reinforcement learning
       | intractable/otherwise a bad idea?
        
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