Chaos from switched-capacitor circuits: Discrete maps

A special-purpose analog computer made of switched-capacitor circuits is presented for analyzing chaos and bifurcation phenomena in nonlinear discrete dynamical systems modeled by discrete maps x
n + 1
= f(x
n
) Experimental results are given for four switched-capacitor circuits described by well-known discrete maps; namely, the logistic map, the piecewise-linear unimodal (one-hump) map, the Hénon map, and the Lozi map.