“…One of the smooth functions similar to the original three-segment piecewise-linear nonlinearity is a cubic polynomial. Several papers chose Chua's circuit with a cubic nonlinearity [Altman, 1993a[Altman, , 1993bHuang et al, 1996;Hartley, 1993;Khibnik et al, 1993;Zhong, 1994;Pivka et al, 1996;Bykov, 1998;Tang & Man, 1998;Liao & Chen, 1998;Yang et al, 1998;Algaba et al, 1999Algaba et al, , 2000Algaba et al, , 2001Eltawil & Elwakil, 1999;Collantes & Suarez, 2000;Ge & Wang, 2000;Yang & Chua, 2001;Jang et al, 2002;O'Donoghue et al, 2005]. A cubic nonlinearity can also be realized by simple practical circuits [O'Donoghue et al, 2005].…”