Necessary and Sufficient Condition for a Class of Planar Dynamical Systems Related to CNNs to be Completely Stable

We study global dynamical behavior of cellular neural networks (CNNs) consisting of two cells. Since the output characteristic of each cell is expressed by a piecewise-linear function, a CNN with two cells is considered as a planar piecewise-linear dynamical system. We present the necessary and sufficient condition for such a CNN to be completely stable under the assumptions that: 1) self-coupling coefficients take the same value greater than one and 2) biases are set to zero. The condition is explicitly expressed in terms of coupling coefficients between cells