Contents -- Preface -- 1. The birth of the Chua's circuit -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Genesis of the Chua's circuit -- 1.3 From RLC to Chua's circuit -- 1.4 Dimensionless Chua's equations -- 1.5 Geometry of the double scroll -- 1.5.1 Parameter values for the Double Scroll Chua's Attractor -- 1.5.2 Equilibrium points of the Chua's circuit -- 1.5.3 Stability of the equilibrium points -- 1.5.4 General considerations on the behavior on each of the three regions D1, D0 and D-1 -- 1.5.5 Qualitative description of the dynamics in D1 (or D-1) -- 1.5.6 Qualitative description of the dynamics in D0 -- 1.5.7 The double scroll attractor -- 1.5.8 Rigorous proof of chaos in the Chua's circuit -- 1.6 Bifurcations of the Chua's circuit -- 1.7 The Chua's oscillator -- 1.8 Generalizations of the Chua's circuit -- 1.8.1 Sinusoidal forcing in the Chua's circuit -- 1.8.2 Hyperchaos in the Chua's circuit -- 1.8.3 The Chua's circuit with a smooth nonlinearity -- 1.8.4 The n-scroll chaotic attractor -- 1.9 Control of the Chua's circuit -- 1.10 Synchronization of Chua's circuits -- 2. Implementation of the Chua's diode -- 2.1 Circuits based on operational amplifiers -- 2.2 Implementation of a negative resistance -- 2.3 Implementation of the five segment nonlinearity -- 2.4 Implementation of the NR characteristic with diodes -- 2.5 Two implementations of the Chua's circuit -- 2.6 Other implementations of the Chua's diode -- 3. Cellular Nonlinear Networks and Chua's circuit -- 3.1 Brief overview on CNN architectures -- 3.2 The State Controlled Cellular Nonlinear Network -- 3.3 CNN-based implementation of the Chua's circuit -- 3.4 Improved cell realization for SC-CNN based Chua's circuit -- 3.5 SC-CNN-based implementation of the Chua's oscillator -- 4. Frequency switched Chua's circuit: experimental dynamics characterization -- 4.1 Model -- 4.2 Experimental results.

5. Photo-controlled Chua's circuit -- 5.1 The nonlinear photo-controlled device -- 5.2 The photo-controlled Chua's circuit -- 5.3 Experimental results -- 6. Programmable Chua's circuit -- 6.1 The Development System -- 6.2 Anadigm Software Development Tool -- 6.3 Design of the Chua's circuit -- 6.4 Circuit implementation and experimental results -- 7. Switched capacitor-based Chua's circuit -- 7.1 Design of the switched capacitor Chua's circuit -- 7.2 Simulation results and layout of the circuit -- 7.3 Experimental results -- 7.4 A cell to experimentally characterize discretely-coupled Chua's circuits -- 8. The four-element Chua's circuit -- 8.1 Model -- 8.2 Implementation -- 8.3 Chua's circuit and the memristor -- 9. The organic Chua's circuit -- 9.1 The OTFT device -- 9.2 Implementation of the Organic Chua's Circuit -- 9.2.1 Saturation Block -- 9.2.2 Transconductance Amplifier Block -- 9.2.3 Negative Current Block -- 9.3 Experimental Results -- 10. Applications of the Chua's circuit -- 10.1 Chaos does help motion control -- 10.1.1 Motion control -- 10.1.2 Experimental results -- 10.2 The Chua's circuit as an analog noise generator -- 10.3 Chaotic Pulse Position Modulation to improve the efficiency of Sonar Sensors -- 10.3.1 Continuous Chaotic Pulse Position Modulation -- 10.3.2 The CPPM Sonar -- 10.3.3 Experimental results -- 11. Conclusions -- 11.1 Scheme of the book -- Critical bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index of the implementations -- Index.