Bharathwaj Muthuswamy & Santo Banerjee 
A Route to Chaos Using FPGAs [PDF ebook] 
Volume I: Experimental Observations

The purpose of this introductory book is to couple the teaching of chaotic circuit and systems theory with the use of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). As such, it differs from other texts on chaos: first, it puts emphasis on combining theoretical methods, simulation tools and physical realization to help the reader gain an intuitive understanding of the properties of chaotic systems. Second, the ‘medium’ used for physical realization is the FPGA. These devices are massively parallel architectures that can be configured to realize a variety of logic functions. Hence, FPGAs can be configured to emulate systems of differential equations. Nevertheless maximizing the capabilities of an FPGA requires the user to understand the underlying hardware and also FPGA design software. This is achieved by the third distinctive feature of this book: a lab component in each chapter. Here, readers are asked to experiment with computer simulations and FPGA designs, to further their understanding of concepts covered in the book.This text is intended for graduate students in science and engineering interested in exploring implementation of nonlinear dynamical (chaotic) systems on FPGAs.

Table of Content

Introduction.- Designing Hardware for FPGAs.- Chaotic ODEs: FPGA Examples.- Bifurcations.- Chaotic DDEs: FPGA Examples and Synchronization Applications.- Introduction to MATLAB and Simulink.- Chapter 1 MATLAB Code.- Chapter 2 VHDL, Simulink DSP Builder and SDC File.- Chapter 3 VHDL, MATLAB Code and Model Sim Scripts.- Chapter 4 MATLAB Code, VHDL and Model Sim Scripts.- Chapter 5 VHDL.- Glossary- Solutions.

About the author

The one author, Santo Banerjee, has already published or contracted a number of titles with us. See entry ‘related titles’ below for published ones. The other author, Bharathwaj Muthuswamy is an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), in particular introducing nonlinear dynamics education at the undergraduate level, and a former Ph D student of Leon Chua, the well-known founder of nonlinear circuit theory.