Now you can get solutions to the most difficult problems facing power supply designers: shrinking size and increased thermal constraints. Christophe Basso’s SMPS SPICE Cookbook is a complete designer’s toolkit with tested, ready-to-run SPICE models on an accompanying CD-ROM. The models come in all three SPICE flavors with demo versions. You can start from scratch, installing the software and simulating the examples in the book without any SPICE experience whatsoever. All the common SMPS topologies are covered: buck, boost, buck-boost, and SEPIC. Each is described in terms of relative strengths and weaknesses and then modeled. Just turn to the CD, pull out the model in the flavor of SPICE you use, plug in your own values – and out comes a design solution. All the models in the book have been carefully simulated and tested. A special website even lets you access new models that will be posted on a continuing basis
Christophe Basso, born in 1965, works for ON Semiconductor, in Toulouse, France, for nearly 12 years. Before that, he was with Motorola for two years. He graduated from the Montpellier university in 1985 and obtained a MSEE in 2007 from the Toulouse INP where he also teaches time to time. He has published three books, one in French and two in English. His last work, "Switch-Mode Power Supplies: SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs", has been positively welcomed by engineers world-wide and well reviewed by columnists. Christophe publishes articles and papers on a regular basis and will conduct a professional seminar at APEC 2011 in Fort Worth.
