Chaotic Dynamics of a Chua's System with Voltage Controllability

This paper presents an integrated circuit oriented Chua's chaotic system with voltage controllability. The proposed chaotic system consists of an OTA (Operational Transconductance Amplifier)based ground inductor, two passive capacitors, a MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor)-based active resistor and an OTA-based Chua's diode with negative nonlinearity. A SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) circuit analysis using 0.5-mu m CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) process parameters was performed for the chaotic dynamics, such as the time waveform and the attractor plot. We confirmed that the chaotic behaviors of the system could be controlled by using the gate voltage of the MOS-based active resistor. Also, various chaotic dynamics of the circuit were analyzed for various MOS sizes of the OTA in the Chua's diode.