Please define what you are talking about.(like pso/gwo etc)
What does "better performance" mean?i mean that i have a converter topology & i want to optimize my circuit with any of the optimization techniques for better performance. by using any technique parameter values can be defined so that performance can be better.
One of my professors worked for RCA back in the day (mid-1950s, I think). He said that one of the highest-paid engineers there had a single job -- to reduce the cost of the flyback transformer by fives cents each year. As long as he managed to do that, he had a guaranteed job for the following year, plus a significant bonus for each cent above fives cents (enough to make it worthwhile not to sandbag). IIRC, he was making something like $20k/yr and RCA was making something like 1.5 million TV sets a year. So a five cent savings per unit would add something in the ballpark of $75k to the bottom line. I would imagine that by the time they first made him that offer that it was already pretty close to being as optimized as everyone else could make it, so it probably took all of his effort to meet the goal. I don't recall my prof saying how long he was able to keep meeting that target.Back in the early days of black and white television, I was given to understand that the designers took the prototype circuit and removed parts, one at a time, until it stopped working. When they put back the last part they had removed, they had "optimized" the cost of the circuit.![]()