A Concise Guide to Chaotic Electronic Circuits

This brief provides a source of instruction from which students can be taught about the practicalities of designing and using chaotic circuits. The text provides information on suitable materials, circuit design and schemes for design realization. Readers are then shown how to reproduce experiments on chaos and to design new ones. The text guides the reader easily from the basic idea of chaos to the laboratory test providing an experimental basis that can be developed for such applications as secure communications.

This brief provides introductory information on sample chaotic circuits, includes coverage of their development, and the “gallery” section provides information on a wide range of circuits. Concise Guide to Chaotic Electronic Circuits will be useful to anyone running a laboratory class involving chaotic circuits and to students wishing to learn about them.

• Chaotic Circuits
• Chua’s Circuit
• Complex Systems
• Coupled Nonlinear Circuits
• Master Stability Funciton
• Network Synchronization
• Nonlinear Electronic Circuits

“This book takes the science and moves it from a programmer’s world to your hands in the form of wires and circuits. … The authors begin with an introduction to the building blocks of circuits. … the aim of the book is a guide to build circuits and experiment. … I recommend it for any hobbyist, mathematician, or engineer who wants to experience chaos beyond a mere simulation on a computer screen that we usually see.” (David S. Mazel, MAA Reviews, June, 2015)

• Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

  Arturo Buscarino, Luigi Fortuna, Mattia Frasca, Gregorio Sciuto

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