Chaotic operation by a single transistor circuit in the reverse active region

In this paper, we present an externally triggered experimental chaotic circuit with a bipolar junction transistor operating in its reverse active region in order to investigate for possible control features in its output phase portraits. Nonlinear time series modeling techniques are applied to analyze the circuit’s output voltage oscillations and reveal the presence of chaos, while the chaos itself is achieved by controlling the amplitude of the applied input signal. The phase space, which describes the behavior evolution of a nonlinear system, is reconstructed using the delay embedding theorem suggested by Takens. The time delay used for this reconstruction is chosen after examining the first minimum of the collected data average mutual information, while the sufficient embedding dimension is estimated using the false nearest-neighbor algorithm which has a value of 5. Also the largest Lyapunov exponent is estimated and found equal to 0.020 48. Finally, the phase space embedding based weight predictor algorithm is employed to make a short-term prediction of the chaotic time series for which the system’s governing equations may be unknown.