An autonomous five-dimensional (5D) system with offset boosting is constructed by modifying the well-known three-dimensional autonomous Liu and Chen system.Equilibrium points of the proposed autonomous 5D system are found and its stability is analyzed.The proposed system includes Hopf bifurcation,periodic attractors,quasi-periodic attractors,a one-scroll chaotic attractor,a double-scroll chaotic attractor,coexisting attractors,the bistability phenomenon,offset boosting with partial amplitude control,reverse period-doubling,and an intermittency route to chaos.Using a field programmable gate array (FPGA),the proposed autonomous 5D system is implemented and the phase portraits are presented to check the numerical simulation results.The chaotic attractors and coexistence of the attractors generated by the FPGA implementation of the proposed system have good qualitative agreement with those found during the numerical simulation.Finally,a sound data encryption and com-munication system based on the proposed autonomous 5D chaotic system is designed and illustrated through a numerical example.