Processing temporal sequences

The analysis of dynamical systems with nonintegrable continuous-time dynamics is oftentimes performed with the help of a Poincare map. This reduces the number of observed dimensions by one without a significant loss of generality in the results. Dynamics produced by the Poincare map, however, is still a sequence of real-valued quantities, difficult to represent in terms of electronic signals. Alternatively, a binary signal representing the time intervals between consecutive piercings through the Poincare section can be easily implemented in electronic circuitry.