Switching Power Supply Design, 3rd Ed.

The World's #1 Guide to Power Supply Design Now Updated!

Recognized worldwide as the definitive guide to power supply design for over 25 years, Switching Power Supply Design has been updated to cover the latest innovations in technology, materials, and components. This Third Edition presents the basic principles of the most commonly used topologies, providing you with the essential information required to design cutting-edge power supplies. Using a tutorial, how-and-why approach, this expert resource is filled with design examples, equations, and charts. The Third Edition of Switching Power Supply Design features:

Designs for many of the most useful switching power supply topologies
The core principles required to solve day-to-day design problems
A strong focus on the essential basics of transformer and magnetics design
New to this edition: a full chapter on choke design and optimum drive conditions for modern fast IGBTs

Get Everything You Need to Design a Complete Switching Power Supply:

Fundamental Switching Regulators * Push-Pull and Forward Converter Topologies * Half- and Full-Bridge Converter Topologies * Flyback Converter Topologies * Current-Mode and Current-Fed Topologies * Miscellaneous Topologies * Transformer and Magnetics Design * High-Frequency Choke Design * Optimum Drive Conditions for Bipolar Power Transistors, MOSFETs, Power Transistors, and IGBTs * Drive Circuits for Magnetic Amplifiers * Postregulators * Turn-on, Turn-off Switching Losses and Low Loss Snubbers * Feedback-Loop Stabilization * Resonant Converter Waveforms * Power Factor and Power Factor Correction * High-Frequency Power Sources for Fluorescent Lamps, and Low-Input-Voltage Regulators for Laptop Computers and Portable Equipment

Customer Reviews:

Just get it...

By Mark Grindell "Mark Grindell" - August 8, 2004

I wonder if I am alone in being a bit concerned about the somewhat decreasing number of books on fundamental engineering topics. It's starting to be a bit of a worry- I have tried to dig into, for instance, the subject of IGBFET physics and actually came up with a rather good book. But generally, this is getting to be hard work and good luck.

Take this book, for instance. If this book suddenly went out of print, loads, and I am serious here, MANY of us would be in dead trouble, because there are just not so many books in this league. By the way, go and buy the book by Keith Billings as well. These two dovetail together beautifully. I think these two gentlemen were good friends and decided to corner the market with two definitive texts. Sneaky! Thanks though guys.

This book is a very fresh and approachable encyclopedia of the whole area, just about. The chapters are all very comprehensive and go right the way through the beginnings of the subject to very detailed... read more

Excellent and throrough text on Switching Power Supplies

By J. Patterson - April 29, 2004

After reviewing this text, I found that it contains a wealth of information on various types of DC-DC converters including boost, buck, flyback, forward, and other topologies. The book gives a good treatment of the theory of operation along with describing equations and also practical information for less experienced engineers or technicians. It also contains a good treatment on control for SMPS's including the details of how Pulse Width Modulation feedback control works. I highly recommend this text for the practicing electronics or electrical engineer. The book is very thorough and it should be in your collection if you are involved in the design and/or analysis of switched supplies, associated circuitry, and power magnetics.

Pressman is the guru of switchers

By orgusa - January 31, 2003

This book is for anyone who designs, debugs or wants a comprehensive understanding of switchers. I had the first edition of this book (that I lost) that was about half this size, but there's so much new info, that it's easily worth double the price. It's well written and appeals to beginners and experts alike.