Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs by Christophe Basso (2008-02-04) Hardcover – January 1, 1659

This book is far more detailed than its predecessor and as the author has promised, it took care the majority of complaints. It is difficult to write any book about this subject that would satisfy everybody. You have to look at it with an open mind. It is not meant as a replacement for academia, it is meant to be a practical design guide for circuit simulations as the title suggests. I am happy with the increased content and I believe that anybody who has analog design basics but not very strong simulation skills will definitely benefit from reading the book and learning a number of very useful simulation tricks as I had benefited from the book's predecessor too. Highly recommended both for entry and medium skill level readers. It can also serve as a library of simulation guide for the well educated in this subject. Do not expect this book to show you how to design a switching power supply, you get the practical aspects of how to from the Pressman books. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to simulate switching power supplies using the various versions of SPICE which it does very well. In addition it has a nice summary of academic introductions to various switching power supply modeling techniques and guides you through how various well known individuals had advanced simulation models.

I read this book for the first time and it was greek and latin to me. The second chapter was the small signal modeling which is probably hardest in power electronics. Lot of equations in chapter 2. I mean it. This book is for people who have used the network analyzer for measuring the feedback loop gain and phase atleast once in their lifetime. If one has used it then it would be easy to understand this book. I read this book for the second time by putting multisim simulator in front of me and it did really make sense. Then moved on to 3rd and 4th chapters : feedback loop design ( not complete enough to describe the feedback loop ) but made sense. I loved this book after that. Have patience while reading it would definitely give you a better impression. This is for everyone: students, industry people and researchers. Book gives complete step by step process of designing flyback, forward, switching losses, conduction losses. One complaint I have with the author: Why didn't you describe the LLC resonant converter design which is the widely used converter?( the name of the book is switch mode which does not involve soft switching)

I have been in the Power Electronics industry for about 4 years now (graduated college in 2008), and I have yet to find a reference as solid as this one when it comes to designing power supplies.The amount of practical information I found in this book, while doing real designs for my work, has been phenomenal.I have not read it all the way through yet, which I am planning to do, especially for the PSPICE analysis, but as a reference this book has proved to be excellent while designing.He covers all the standard topologies, but also goes into detail about how to generate VCC supplies, how to add protection features, how to compensate the feedback loop, etc...The SPICE models provided with the book are also great, I just wish you did not have to pay extra for the more advanced models, but I suppose a lot of work was put into it so he couldn't give it away for free...If you are an aspiring power electronics engineer (like me) I highly recommend this book as your go-to reference when designing power supplies.

A must-have even if you already own many books on the subject. Highly recommended. Mr. Basso evidently has been extraordinarily busy, as this book has vastly more information than his 2001 book on the same subject, and it goes far deeper. Lots of mathematical derivations, including of non-switching average modeling. More material than the vast majority of engineers designing power supplies in industry could get around to deriving in a lifetime. And far more lucid and PRACTICAL than some of the other very thick post-graduate books, written by professors, that I own and reference, where the practical applicable material seems to be mostly in all-too-short appendices. Vast number of schematics, circuits, circuit topologies, equations, transfer functions, waveforms, insights. I own Pressman's fine book, Basso's book is surprisingly orthogonal, for producing in industrial setting. I use Basso's often, my other SMPS books less so. Basso's English is not perfect, don't know why the editor didn't help more with that. I don't know Basso, not personally, not at all, never met him. I know circuit design and simulation. Book costs less than many of the others, fewer stars or otherwise.

I do not have a background or a professional activity in power electronics, but nevertheless I did spend a considerable effort(over the last 3 months) to understand switching power supplies because we were confronted with problems in a commercialapplication (current-mode switcher).The book from Mr Basso takes you directly to many details that are missed in the literature ... actually several details ofthe schematic (of our application) were explained and worked out in this marvelous book.To my opinion this is going to become a classic text and I think it deserves a place on the book shelve of engineers involvedSMPS design.Although I did not evaluate the models included, I think that they are valuable and a good start for beginners and students.From my point of view this book is not about magnetics or inductor/transformer design, although it introduces the subjectand supplies plenty of references.

Love it. Great info, nice explanations of WHY, the perennial engineering question.

A really great book which covers in detail several layers of "switch-Mode" power supplies designs. Electronics, Maths and Spice simulations. Practical designs are covered in details and the Spice models really work!! Obviously, several models relate to "ON" devices, but they can be adapted rather easily to other Semiconductor manufacturers. All together a great buy!