An Automated Acquisition Setup for the Analysis of Chaotic Systems

The design and implementation of an acquisition setup dedicated to the experimental evaluation and characterization of chaotic electronic circuits is presented. The whole setup was created using National Instrument's Labview environment and it is structured in a way that it is independent of the devices used for the experimental recording of the necessary data. Next to the signal's power spectrum, the embedding and correlation dimensions are calculated as well as the Kolmogorov entropy. The last two can lead to conclusions about a circuit's performance in a periodic or chaotic mode.