Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs [Hardcover]

Christophe Basso (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 14, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0071508589 | ISBN-13: 978-0071508582 | Edition: 1

Harness Powerful SPICE Simulation and Design Tools to Develop Cutting-Edge Switch-Mode Power Supplies

Switch-Mode Power Supplies: SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs is a comprehensive resource on using SPICE as a power conversion design companion. This book uniquely bridges analysis and market reality to teach the development and marketing of state-of-the art switching converters. Invaluable to both the graduating student and the experienced design engineer, this guide explains how to derive founding equations of the most popular converters…design safe, reliable converters through numerous practical examples…and utilize SPICE simulations to virtually breadboard a converter on the PC before using the soldering iron.

Filled with more than 600 illustrations, Switch-Mode Power Supplies: SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs enables you to:

• Derive founding equations of popular converters
• Understand and implement loop control via the book-exclusive small-signal models
• Design safe, reliable converters through practical examples
• Use SPICE simulations to virtually breadboard a converter on the PC
• Access design spreadsheets and simulation templates on the accompanying CD-ROM, with numerous examples running on OrCADË, ICAPSË, µCapË, TINAË, and more

Inside This Powerful SPICE Simulation and Design Resource

• Introduction to Power Conversion • Small-Signal Modeling • Feedback and Control Loops • Basic Blocks and Generic Models • Simulation and Design of Nonisolated Converters • Simulation and Design of Isolated Converters-Front-End Rectification and Power Factor Correction • Simulation and Design of Isolated Converters-The Flyback • Simulation and Design of Isolated Converters-The Forward

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About the Author

Christophe Basso is a technical engineer at ON Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor) and a frequent contributor to power electronics magazines and conferences.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 889 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (January 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071508589
• ISBN-13: 978-0071508582
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #290,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Best, April 9, 2008

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Mark W. Hutchins - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs (Hardcover)

Christophe Basso worked very hard giving years of his life to produce the best Switch-Mode Power Supply book available, by far. I have a large collection of books on SMPS and although many are very good books, they are not nearly as complete or practical as Basso's book. He derives all his equations and then shows many real world example designs from start to finish. In my opinion and the opinion of many power electronics professionals and power electronics college students, the averaged switch model is the easiest to create and most intuitive to understand and use. Basso has digested the best information from the best references and then creatively enhanced many models and invented new SPICE models/sub-circuits you need for large and small signal analysis and simulations with the SPICE of your choice. His knowledge of creating analog behavioral models (ABM) that perform just like the real components or circuit functions, is amazing. He created ABM PWMs from individual ABM components. Everything he creates, he verifies. You buy this book at a bargain price and get a CD with all the models/sub-circuits you need to check your existing designs and start new designs with the highest confidence. Once you look at his ABMs, you will want to create some of your own because it is so much fun. In a short time, I've used his models/sub-circuits and his techniques with PSPICE to identify lack of or no phase margin in Switch-Mode Power Supplies for a huge corporation. I have many more power supplies to analyze/simulate and several new ones to design.

I've worked as a power electronics engineer for many years and I'm so thankful to Christophe Basso for working so hard and smart to produce the best Switch-Mode Power Supply book ever written. Very thorough and very practical. Get this book and apply Basso's knowledge, techniques, and SPICE models/sub-circuits to your designs and you will never have another unstable Switch-Mode or Linear Power Supply.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Observation, March 18, 2008

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Charles Edward Denton "Charlie" (Dominican Republic) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs (Hardcover)

Once in a while a book comes along that covers a subject in such detail and yet is chocked with examples that are easy to prove and use by students and designers in the field as this one. It is evident that Mr. Basso went to great lengths to make sure that users of different spice software platforms were included by supplying a CD with models and demos for all the major platforms. I don't know of another offering that deals with closing the feedback loop in the detail as this book does. I think any serious graduate program should consider including this book as a text. Money and time well spent; it is my second reference for serious SMPS work.

Charles Denton
Custom Engineering

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Boy, it sure answered some of my questions!, January 19, 2009

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J. R. Cockrum - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs (Hardcover)

I have been getting into SMPS design for a couple of years, and it seems that certain things are mentioned, but not really explained. I suppose you can get the information by searching though endless papers, but how does this help you when you have to still get that supply designed to schedule? That's what is exceptional about this book. It provided the information that helped answer the questions that I kept having. For example, how can you characterize the leakage inductance of a transformer? How do you know that you are using the TL431 correctly? What do you do with that right hand plane zero? What is the contribution of the opto-coupler to the response of the supply? If you find yourself asking questions like these, this is the book for you. Using SPICE as a tool, not as the solution, the author explains these things and more in an easy to read style. This book will provide you with a great set of tools that makes designing a switch mode power supply very straight forward. Mr. Basso explains the different toplogies, how they are related to each other, as well as the deficiencies. I believe that by studying the information in this book, the reader will be able to develop the technical skill and competency needed to develop reliable, stable power supplies. I have been able to see opportunities for performance improvement, shorter design cycles as well as increased reliability for the supplies that I design. As you read through it, I think you to will agree that this is a great reference to have on your bookshelf!