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Switching Power Supplies A to Z | 
| Author: Sanjaya Maniktala
Publisher: Newnes
List Price: $72.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0750679700
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN: 9780750679701
Publication Date: July 6, 2006
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Product Description
The design of Switching Power Supplies has become one of the most crucial aspects of power electronics, particularly in the explosive market for portable devices. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple mechanism is actually one of the most complex and under-estimated processes in Power Electronics. Switching power conversion involves several engineering disciplines: Semiconductor Physics, Thermal Management, Control Loop theory, Magnetics etc, and all these come into play eventually, in ways hard for non-experts to grasp.
This book grows out of decades of the author's experience designing commercial power supplies. Although his formal education was in physics, he learned the hard way what it took to succeed in designing power supplies for companies like Siemens and National Semiconductor. His passion for power supplies and his empathy for the practicing or aspiring power conversion engineer is evident on every page.
* The most comprehensive study available of the theoretical and practical aspects of controlling and measuring Electromagnetic Interference in switching power supplies, including input filter instability considerations.
* Step-by-step and iterative approach for calculating high-frequency losses in forward converter transformers, including Proximity losses based on Dowell's equations.
* Thorough, yet uniquely simple design flow-chart for building DC-DC converters and their magnetic components under typical wide-input supply conditions
* Step-by-step, solved examples for stabilizing control loops of all three major topologies, using either transconductance or conventional operational amplifiers, and either current-mode or voltage-mode control.
* CD-ROM includes Visualizations based on Mathcad and Mathcad calculations, including Mathcad files, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint Seminars, and PDFs all for power supply design
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 An Original and Refreshing Approach to Power Supply Design July 28, 2009
Ken Coffman (Mount Vernon, WA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are many power supply books on the market and some of them are outstanding; Pressman and Tartar and Lenk come to mind. Speaking for myself, I don't find complex math very illuminating--I don't feel like I understand a circuit until I've conceived a mental model and arrived at an intuitive understanding of the forward and feedback functions. If you want a deep analytical dive into a math-based analysis of a power supply, then perhaps the Erickson/Maksimovic book will earn a treasured place on your cluttered desk. If you want guidance in a practical, intuitive and, let's come out and say it, a fun way delivered by a creative, experienced and iconoclastic thinker, then, by all means, this is the book you want. This is not a dry book...Sanjaya wears his heart on his sleeve and loves taking the battle to the irrational and wrong-headed when he encounters them. This makes the book a pleasure if, like me, you don't mind an off-course excursion on occasion.
The fact that the book is reasonably priced is a welcome bonus. No question about it: Five Stars.
Very "Powerful" yet Simple to understand Book July 28, 2009
Inder Dhingra (San Jose, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Switching Power Supplies A to Z
I want to take a moment to express my gratefulness for the author of the book "Switching Power Supplies A to Z". It's very great book. I guess engineers working in power electronics definitely appreciate this book. I personally learnt so much from this book. I couldn't even think "Power" without this book. It's very neatly and wonderfully written book. I read many power electronic books and application notes but this book quenches the thirst for "Switching Power Supplies". In my company many people use this book. I highly recommend this book to engineers starting to work in the field of Switching Power Supply; even it is a very good reference for currently working engineers. I give five stars to this book.
 Very dissapointing July 22, 2009
H. Botha (South Africa)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
The high reviews on this book is totally unfounded. The book is down right disappointing. Too much emphasis on topics like ripple ratio and inductors. It's a never ending story and does not bring you to the point you want to get to start a practical design. There are definitely better books on the subject.
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! March 24, 2009
Joe Kerrigan (Ireland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I normally do not write reviews. In fact, I almost did, then did not, then did again, for this one too! But I think I need to admit I too found this book very enlightening. Thoroughly interesting to read too. Not like the other well-known but rather dry books out there. Pressman, for example, passed away long ago, as we all know. I expected the new edition would not carry any thing new from him. And it doesn't. I was also just not interested in "learning" power supplies through the medium of PSpice or Simulation tools (who ever does?). So that left me with this one. And not only is it timely, but exceeded even my high expectations. Plus, very thorough and very practical too. Can't get any better.
Update Feb 2010: I just saw this review on Amazon UK
[...] Mr Bax writes:
"In my opinion this is one of the most readable book there is on switch mode power supplies. It has a style (like Abraham I Pressmans Swiching Power Supplies)that is easy to follow but has far more detail particularly on magnetics (in SI units)and loop stabilisation. It has as much technical content as Keith Billings book but more is more flowing, avoiding the disjointed layout of Billings and also avoids (what to me appears) the arogant writing style of Billings. More detail on other topologies (Cuk and Resonant mode are two that spring to mind)would have been appreciated. Maybe this will be the subject area of another book which I eagerly await.If you only buy one book on switchig power supplies this should be the one.."
My question is, are the two guys who wrote almost identical negative copycat reviews in 2009 several years after this book was so obviously and overwhelmingly praised, linked to each together and to some hidden evil force themselves? Very likely they are just some enemies, or competition, out to get the author. It is clear to me that people all over the world have had nothing but extraordinary praise for this book. And well-deserved too! I suspect a rat in the bushes here.
 Switching Power Supplies A-Z March 21, 2009
David Brown (Sammamish)
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought this book since it had such high reviews. I was dissapointed when I read the book. Way too much time was spent on very simple topics while other more complicated topics were too simplisitc. Too much emphisis was put on the "current ripple ratio". There are many more important things that determine an inductors value. The book states A-Z but there were so many topics not covered. Many people reviewing this book stated "this was the only power supply book you need, throw all the rest of your power supply books away"??? I wonder if these were written by his friends. If you want a single power supply book I would recommend Abraham Pressman's books. They are much much better! A-Z does have a decent EMI section.
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