“…The frequency locking phenomenon, the existence of the Arnol ′ d tongues, and the devil's staircase structure have been proved rigorously in some mathematical models, such as the circle map [3], and studied numerically or experimentally for several electronic circuits, such as the van der Pol equation [9,17], the Josephson junction [1,13,20], the Chua circuit [18] among others.…”