Switchmode power supply handbook / Keith Billings

Part I: Functions and Requirements Common to Most Direct-Off-Line -- Switchmode Power Supplies -- Common Requirements: An Overview -- AC Powerline Surge Protection -- Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) in Switchmode Power Supplies -- Faraday Screens -- Fuse Selection -- Line Rectification and Capacitor Input Filters for "Direct-Off-Line" Switchmode Power Supplies -- Inrush Control -- Start-Up Methods -- Soft Start and Low-Voltage Inhibit -- Turn-On Voltage Overshoot Prevention -- Overvoltage Protection -- Undervoltage Protection -- Overload Protection -- Foldback (Reentrant) Output Current Limiting -- Base Drive Requirements for High-Voltage Bipolar Transistors -- Proportional Drive Circuits for Bipolar Transistors -- Antisaturation Techniques for High-Voltage Transistors -- Snubber Networks -- Cross Conduction -- Output Filters -- Power Failure Warning Circuits -- Centering (Adjustment to Center) of Auxiliary Output Voltages on Multiple-Output Converters -- Auxiliary Supply Systems -- Parallel Operation of Voltage: Stabilized Power Supplies -- Part II: Design: Theory and Practice -- Multiple-Output Flyback Switchmode Power Supplies -- Flyback Transformer Design-- Reducing Transistor Switching Stress-- Selecting Power Components for Flyback Converter -- Self-Oscillating Direct-Off-Line Flyback Converters -- Applying Current-Mode Control to Flyback Converters -- Direct-Off-Line Single-Ended Forward Converters -- Transformer Design for Forward Converters -- Diagonal Half-Bridge Forward Converters -- Transformer Design for Diagonal Half-Bridge Forward Converters -- Half-Bridge Push-Pull Duty-Ratio-Controlled Converters -- Bridge Converters -- Low-Powered Self-Oscillaitng Auxiliary Converters -- Single-Transformer Two-Transistor Self-Oscillating Converters -- Two-Transformer Self-Oscillating Converters -- The DC-to-DC Transformer Concept -- Multiple-Output Compund Regulating Systems -- DC-to-DC Switching Regulators -- High-Frequency Saturable Reactor Power Regulators -- Constant-Current Power Supplies -- Variable Linear Power Supplies -- Switchmode Variable Power Supplies -- Switchmode Variable Power Supply Transformer Design -- Part III: Applied Design. -- Inductors and Chokes in Switchmode Supplies -- High-Current Chokes Using Iron Powder Cores -- Choke Design Using Iron Powder Toroidal Cores -- Switchmode Transformer Design: General Principles -- Optimum 150-W Transformer Design Example Using Nomograms -- Transformer Staircase Saturation -- Flux Doubling -- Stability and Control-Loop Compensation in SMPS -- The Right-Half-Plane Zero -- Current-Mode Control -- Optocouplers -- Ripple Current Ratings for Electrolytic Capacitors in Switchmode Power Supplies -- Noninductive Current Shunts -- Current Transformers -- Current Probes for Measurement Purposes -- Thermal Management -- Part IV: Supplementary -- Active Power Factor Correction.

"Offering sound working knowledge of the latest in topologies and clear, step-by-step approaches to component decisions, this handbook gives power supply designers practical, solutions-oriented design guidance, free of unnecessarily complicated mathematical derivations and theory."--Jacket