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An Intuitive Guide to Compensating Switching Power Supplies is my new book entirely dedicated to stabilizing control systems like switching converters. This book differs from the previous ones as it introduces some part of the theory you should know as a minimum and then goes to the many design examples I have illustrated with SIMPLIS. The cool thing is that all of the examples can be freely downloaded from this file and most of them will run on the demonstration version Elements. Once the package is installed, you are all set and can start simulating your project. This practical manual introduces the basic concepts found in the literature but in a design-oriented way. For example, you will learn how phase margin and crossover frequency must be selected based on the expected transient response and not arbitrarily picked. The dynamic performance of the final product will depend on the compensator design and it is important to understand how organizing poles, zeroes and gain shapes the final behavior. As this compensator can be built around an operational amplifier, a TL431 or a transconductance amplifier with or without an optocoupler, I have dedicated sections to all of these components. The icing on the cake lies in the automated calculation macros found in the SIMPLIS examples which let you try different compensation scenarios without separately recalculating components values.
You can see how consise the text remains, with a large part dedicated to the schematic diagram and the results. The colored graphics are easy and pleasant to read. The PDF version is in high resolution and is perfect for a computer screen in the lab!
As with the previous books, I will collect comments and findings from readers to gather them in the errata file.

You can read the very comprehensive review published by Dennis Feucht in How2Power.

The book is available from different channels.

Stairway Press is the editor and they ship worldwide at a price better than Amazon. Also, the PDF is ready for download from their site, check it out!


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