Re: best book to get started in ac/dc smps power supply design

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:30:49 +1200, Terry Given <my_name@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Joel Koltner wrote:
Say Terry,

"Terry Given" <my_name@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Marty Brown's book is pretty good, as is Abraham Pressmans (although his
maths is designed to be as confusing as possible).


What I know about switchers and magnetics design came mostly from Pressman. I
discovered Marty's book later, and thought the 1st edition was a little too
"cookbookish" -- albeit with coverage of more contemporary topics than
Pressman, who still spent a lot of time talking about 20kHz switching. :-)
Marty added some significant "meat" for the second edition, though... I think
it's pretty good now.

yeah it is a bit that way. Anything JD Lenk writes should be avoided for
that reason. Cookbook = "neither understand nor think"


I don't have a copy of Billings' book.


I have these:

Billings, 1st ed.
Pressman, 2nd ed.
Brown, 2nd ed.
SMPS simulation with SPICE3, Sandler
Switch Mode Power Conversion, K. Kit Sum
One by Gottlieb, published by TAB - I have learned my lesson, the book
is a joke.
Principles of Inverter Circuits, Bedford & Hoft
Power Electronics 2nd ed, Lander
High Frequency Switching Power Supplies, Chryssis
Switching Power Converters, Wood
Power supplies for electronic equipment vols 1&2, Nowicki (old but great)
Dynamic Analysis of Switching mode dc/dc converters, Redl, Sokal et al
(fabulous method injection-absorbed current analysis)
Resonant power converters, kazimierczuk
Power Electronics 1st ed, Mohan undeland & robbins
Design of solid-state power supplies 2nd ed, Hnatek
SMPS design & optimization, maniktala (this is pretty good)
Transistor inverters & converters, Roddam
Severns & Blooms book
Mitchells book

If there are any I am missing, let me know ;)

The TI/Unitrode notes by Lloyd H Dixon are very good for magnetics,
they are somewhere on their website, but hard to find, perhaps try
http://focus.ti.com/analog/docs/techdocs.tsp?contentType=8&familyId=662&navSection=app_notes
for a start. Or you get them by searching within their website for
sem100 (that was 1983) up to sem 1700 (2006/7)

It's well worth doing one of Ray Ridley's seminars if he's still
running them, and he has a lot of good app notes on
http://www.switchingpowermagazine.com/

It's also worth checking out http://www.smps.us/smpsdesign.html
.

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