FPGA realizations of high-speed switching-type chaotic oscillators using compact VHDL codes

This paper introduces high-speed FPGA implementations of two different chaotic systems that rely on a switching-type nonlinearity. In particular, the single-switch Jerk system and the two-wing butterfly system (previously implemented only in analog form) are realized on a modular FPGA platform. For each system, two different hardware architectures are described: a parameters-independent architecture and a customized one with fixed parameters that utilizes less FPGA resources and thus has high throughput with the minimum number of clock cycles. Experimental results show that the parameters-independent architecture utilizes 70% more of the FPGA resources, while the customized one achieves a maximum clock frequency 172.5 MHz for the Jerk and 142.6 MHz for the two-wing system. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature.