Switch-Mode Power Supply SPICE Cookbook (Hardcover)

by Christophe P. Basso (Author), Christopher Basso (Author) "User friendliness is a key factor for the commercial success of any simulation program..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
"I can only give a glowing review for Basso's proposed book. Christophe Basso is a frequent contributor to EDN's Design ideas section, and his submissions are uniformly excellent and innovative. His topic is an extremely valid one, and should be of interest to many readers. A wealth of literature exists on SPICE models for power supplies, but it's generally scattered in companies' application literature and conference papers. Basso's effort is the first I know of to compile the SPICE information in one place." Daniel Mitchell, Technical Editor, EDN Magazine

Product Description
Ready-made SPICE power supply solutions

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

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (March 19, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071375090
• ISBN-13: 978-0071375092
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,184,831 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SPICE Cookbook that really cooks, June 2, 2001

By	Harry A. Dellamano (Santa Rosa Valley, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a complete Power Supply Designers Toolkit/cookbook with ready to run simulation templates for optimun solutions to loop stabilization. There is just enought backgrown information for understanding the models derivation. The attached CD-ROM contains all the models necessary for fast solutions. I particually liked the spreadsheet for solving loop components values using K Factor analysis. I don't know how many times in the last 20 years that I could have used this solver. The real power of this book is access to the author thru his web site. I just e-mailed him my faulty file and he quickly told me how to fix my mistakes. It's like having an expert on call. The author does a nice job of tying in other well known experts in the field and using their expertise to make this book a complete study in the art of Power Supply loop design.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ready to use CookBook, August 23, 2001

By	F.B.M. van Horck "frankvanhorck" (Eindhoven Netherlands) - See all my reviews

To my best knowledge, the well-written book gives for the first time a comprehensive treatment of spice and switched-mode power supplies (SMPS's). A short history of modelling techniques is discussed with references to relevant literature; also some tricks to speed up a simulation are given. The main part of the book consists of the small-signal (averaged) and transient models for the most common converters, such as buck, boost, flyback, forward, half-bridge, etc.; all illustrated by examples. Most of the examples are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM; the reader can start quite quickly with experimenting with the templates. Unfortunately, extracting the models from IsSpice (which we use) is quite cumbersome, since first the demo version has to be installed before the models are available. This demo version conflicts with the commercial version (although Intusoft gives a solution on their web-site). In a next release it would be very helpful to distribute the models separately on the CD (or web?). Nevertheless, the book is according to my opinion very useful for people working in the field of SMPS's. Calculating the closed-loop response and stability analysis is now really easy. Comprehensive, easy to read. Good work.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Help, March 1, 2002

By A Customer

The book is simple an easy to follow. The Models alone are worth the price of the book.