Abstract
This paper proposes a new chaos generator circuit with a current sampling scheme. This circuit generates an arbitrary nonlinear function corresponding to the time-domain current waveform supplied from an external source by using a pulse phase modulation approach. The measurement results of a fabricated chip with TSMC 0.25 µm process technology demonstrate that the proposed circuit can generate chaos signals even if D/A conversion is used for nonlinear waveform generation, because a current integral by sampling with a short pulse smooths the quantized nonlinear function.
