Oscillator Circuits

Yoshifumi Nishio is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Tokushima University, Japan, where his research interests are in the areas of nonlinear circuits engineering. He was the Chair of the IEEE CAS Society Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (2004-2005), the Steering Committee Secretary of the IEICE Research Society of Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (2004-2007), and is currently a member of the IEEE CAS Society Board of Governors (from 2012). He was an Editor or an Associate Editor of IEICE Fundamentals Review, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE CAS Magazine and the RISP Journal of Signal Processing. He currently serves as a Secretary for NOLTA, IEICE and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE CAS Society Newsletter and International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Analysis of bifurcation in oscillatory circuitsChapter 3: Fractional-order oscillatorsChapter 4: Memristive and memcapacitive astable multivibratorsChapter 5: Piecewise-constant oscillators and their applicationsChapter 6: Master-slave synchronization of hysteresis neural-type oscillatorsChapter 7: Multimode oscillations in coupled hard-oscillatorsChapter 8: Wave propagation of phase difference in coupled oscillator arraysChapter 9: Coupled oscillator networks with frustrationChapter 10: Graph comparison and synchronization in complex networksChapter 11: Experimental studies on reconfigurable network of chaotic oscillatorsChapter 12: Fundamental operation and design of high-frequency high-efficiency tuned power oscillatorChapter 13: Ring oscillators and self-timed rings in true random number generatorsChapter 14: Attacking on-chip oscillators in cryptographic applications