Switching Power Supply Design and Optimization, Second Edition

This book spends almost 150 pages detailing each and every concept related to magnetic design for flyback, forward converter. Shows how to calculate inductors for DC-DC converters. The author shows step by step formula to calculate the precise core size, wire guage, air gap etc. He also compares his practically implemented formula with the industry formulae used to calculate precise core size, wire guages etc. I enjoyed reading it. By far the best book on magnetics which takes each and every issue into consideration ( proximity,skin effect, fringing effect etc). Showed a complete table of different magnetic core manufacturers, their dimensions, gap etc. He also showed how to reduce core losses by varying the parameters such as Volume of the core, area of the core. length of the core and their effect on core losses. The textbook also has a very decent section on selection of PFC holdup time capacitor value which is usually a very complex topic and plenty of formulae exist which result in different values. But, this author has given a table which can be used to select the capacitor value, RMS current value right from the table. Also shows how to parallel ceramic and electrolytic capacitors taking into account the RMS current, voltage ripple, ESR etc. This is very good. The chapter on reliability/Safety is also very good. This is required for high volume production. I would definitely recommended this textbook to all levels of expertise.

This book is truly a labor of love by the author. No one book can cover every aspect of power supply design, but this one comes close. It is very well illustrated and has many very handy charts and graphs. It is a useful and practical design reference that is well worth the purchase price. I must have a dozen books on power supply design and this text stands out as one of the very best.

Excellent! content but lousy print! The material was prepared for colored printing but the book is printed in black and white. Some content, especially on the pictures is barely visible. I give four instead of five stars because of lousy print.

This book gives a lot of good perspective on power electronics and always make it easy to connect real world design and theory. Good reference book to keep in the shelves if youre a powe engineer

This outstanding book picks up where the other books leave off. Not intended for beginners. The section on magnetics is absolutely fantastic and very different from other books.

this book explains the concept clearly with plenty of examples, drawings and waveforms. However, it tends to be verbose on certain subjects.

Bought it for my dad so hoping it would be good.

Fantastic!

Perfect book and delivery

This is a nice book and the content looks to be good but the text print is fairly small with a font and font size which i can only describe as fine, this makes it a difficult read.

I knew when I bought this, it was a textbook and would be of limited use to me. I have tried to build switch mode power supplies with limited success using Internet articles. I gave up searching for a book suitable for casual use and decided to try this one... mostly based on price and reviews. As expected extraction of information is tedious. Explanations are wordy, smothered in jargon and formulae. I tried plodding through the theoretical stuff but without access to a lecturer or someone who knew what they were doing I could see I was wasting my time. Despite all this negative stuff I have extracted some guidance and am slowly gaining limited confidence. This is a subject which badly needs a less academic book suitable for hobbyist use.