Nishio Yoshifumi (ed.) Oscillator Circuits: Frontiers in Design, Analysis and Applications

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016. — 338 p. — (IET Materials, Circuits and Devices 32). — ISBN: 978-1-78561-057-8.An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a periodic (often a sine wave, a square wave, or a pulse trains) or a non-periodic (a double-mode wave or a chaotic wave) oscillating electronic signal. Oscillators convert direct current from a power supply to an alternating current signal, and are widely used in many electronic devices. This book surveys recent developments in the design, analysis and applications of this important class of circuits.
Topics covered include an introduction to recent developments; analysis of bifurcation in oscillatory circuits; fractional-order oscillators; memristive and memcapacitive astable multivibrators; piecewise-constant oscillators and their applications; master-slave synchronization of hysteresis neural-type oscillators; multimode oscillations in coupled hard-oscillators; wave propagation of phase difference in coupled oscillator arrays; coupled oscillator networks with frustration; graph comparison and synchronization in complex networks; experimental studies on reconfigurable network of chaotic oscillators; fundamental operation and design of high-frequency tuned power oscillator; ring oscillators and self-timed rings in true random number generators; and attacking on-chip oscillators in cryptographic applications.
Providing an overview of the state-of-the-art in oscillator circuits, this book is essential reading for researchers, advanced students and circuit designers working in circuit theory and modelling, especially nonlinear circuit engineering.Introduction.
Analysis of bifurcations in oscillatory circuits.Analysis of bifurcations of autonomous systems.
Example of bifurcation analysis applied to an autonomous system.
Conclusions.Fractional-order oscillators.
Fractional-order sinusoidal oscillators.
Fractional-order relaxation oscillators.Memristive and memcapacitive astable multivibrators.Circuit schematic of floating memristor emulator.
Theoretical analysis of memristive astable multivibrator.
Simulation validation for memristive astable multivibrator.
Memcapacitor-based astable oscillator circuit.
Simulation validation for memcapacitive astable multivibrator.Piecewise-constant oscillators and their applications.
Basic concept of piecewise-constant oscillations.
Example 1: a piecewise-constant chaotic spiking oscillator.
Example 2: coupled systems of piecewise-constant oscillators.
Conclusions.Master-slave synchronization of hysteresis neural-type oscillators.Relaxation oscillator with a time-variant threshold.
The response to non-periodic external force.
Conclusions.Multimode oscillations in coupled hard oscillators.Two inductor-coupled hard oscillators.
Propagating waves in a coupled hard-oscillator ring.
Conclusions.Wave propagation of phase difference in coupled oscillator arrays.Circuit model.
Phase-inversion waves.Coupled oscillator networks with frustration.Frustration in ring van der Pol oscillators with different frequencies.
Frustration in coupled polygonal oscillatory networks.
Conclusions.Graph comparison and synchronization in complex networks.Network model and preliminaries.
Tools of graph comparison.
Synchronization in an undirected network.
Synchronization in a directed network.
Conclusions.Experimental studies on reconfigurable networks of chaotic oscillators.Realization of a network of nonlinear oscillators with linear coupling.
Collective behaviours and relative analysis tools.
Experimental results and validation of theoretical predictions.
Concluding remarks.Fundamental operation and design of high-frequency high-efficiency tuned power oscillator.Power amplifiers.
Tuned power oscillator.
Design of free-running class-E oscillator.Ring oscillators and self-timed rings in true random number generators.Design of TRNGs.
Electric noise and clock jitter as a source of randomness.
Harvesting the entropy from jittery clock signals.
Single-event ring oscillators as sources of jittery clocks.
Multi-event ring oscillators with signal collisions.
STR oscillators.
Examples of oscillator-based TRNGs.
Conclusions.Attacking on-chip oscillators in cryptographic applications.Background.
Figures.
Retrieving information on the RO-TRNG: passive electromagnetic attack.
Modifying the RO-TRNG behavior: active electromagnetic attack.