Basic dynamics from a pulse-coupled network of autonomous integrate-and-fire chaotic circuits

Studies basic dynamics of a pulse-coupled network (PCN). The unit element of the PCN is an autonomous integrate-and-fire chaotic circuit having two states. For a basic master-slave PCN, we give basic classification of chaos synchronous phenomena and their breakdown patterns. The existence region of each phenomenon is elucidated in a parameter subspace. We then construct a large scale ring-type PCN, and elucidate that the PCN exhibits interesting grouping phenomena of chaos synchronization patterns. Some typical phenomena can be verified in the laboratory