Switching Power Supplies A - Z

This is a pretty useful, especially for a switching supply noob like myself - text with lots of great details, tables, example problems/solutions and insights. The only thing I wish they would have spent a little more time detailing or giving examples of, is generation of negative rails. It would have been a 5 star review, but I feel like they shortchanged that very important topic. Otherwise, fantastic explanation of the theory and practice.

This is a very good book for learning details about power supply design. This is a big subject, so there are a lot of things covered in the book. I found this book to be well worth the money. It covers the multiple topologies you will see out in the industry. He explains the pros and cons of each one. Covers power supply compensation, inductor design and specification, component power dissipation ... It is nice to get an idea where all the design equations in the datasheets come from. You will have a good handle on power supply circuits after reading this book.

I've purchased this book and am writing this review not because Sanjaya is my friend and former colleague at National Semiconductor (while both are true). I bought this book because it happened to be the most complete source of information found online through a rather non-trivial search combination used after several other more simple searches haven't produced satisfactory results. I was searching for a published reference material that would support my hypothesis regarding a root cause of synchronous buck converter IC failures. It was possible in the buck design that the failures were caused by a pre-biased output condition leading to the pre-biasing voltage getting boosted to the input thus potentially exceeding absolute maximum rating of the converter IC. The Google search combination that returned link to this Sanjaya ‘s book among the first several hits was "buck boosts pre-biasing output voltage" and it pointed to page 356 where I found descriptions of several such scenarios, which coincidentally I investigated about 10 years ago at National. At this point I had to buy the book. I highly recommend it as a very practical reference source for various switcher design issues.Thank you, Sanjaya!Leo Sheftelevich

Definitely a great book detailing each and every EMI issue related to power supplies and talks about how to overcome them. I haven't seen any power supply book that talks about EMI as this author did. Chapter 8 has powerloss equations for a mosfet during turn ON, turn OFF. He made everything look simple. A great chapter. Learned alot. For compensation you need to look at this book and his book on optimization to get a complete idea. Both books are really good which give plenty of details. Also the magnetics selection of high current converters is very well explained in this book.

It was painful trying to read this book. This book is full of bad English. I spent more time trying to make sense of phrases and sentences than learning. It is obvious the author’s native language is not English. Don’t Newnes proofreads books before publishing them? I guess not. I do not recommend this book to anyone.

Excellent book. Very practical. I enjoyed reading about how the magnetics influence the IC design.I hope the author can come up with a similar treatise on charge-pump power converters. Also it will be good to cover more multi-phase power converters in more detail.

If you are a power supply designer or need to understand how they work, buy this book! Highly informative and well written. Very understandable. I have read many books on power conversion in my 30 years in the field and this book is one of the best out there if not the best in my opinion. The author, Sanjaya Maniktala, other books are equally good but this is the one to start with. If your budget only allows you to purchase one book on power conversion, you can't go wrong buying this one.

This is an incredibly well written book. The title could have as well been Sw. PS. for 6 year olds, because it was clearly explained in very simple terms by someone that actually understands whats going on. The topic is covered very thoroughly.I would have given 5 stars, but most of the more complex images in the e-book were virtually unreadable because of their substandard resolution, which is a real pity. I'd love to see a revised version of this book with that issues addressed.

I have this in Kindle and in print. Very good practical content, the math content is kept to a sensible and approachable level for real engineers. Too many books on the subject are written by academic mathematicians, who probably don't know which end of a soldering iron to hold, plying endless derivations on the reader to prove their math chops, which is of little day to day practical use for the electronics engineer.Be aware that in the Kindle verison many of the diagrams are illegible. Although I prefer and buy almost all my books on Kindle, this one is much better in print. 5* for the print version. Also consider the Intuitive Analog to Digital Control Loops books by the same author, which include real worked examples in an approachable chatty style.

I have read other books on power supplies / converters. This is the 1st material I have read which has really explained whats going on. I now understand things that were a mystery before. The coverage of inductors is really good. I haven't read the whole book yet, but am very encouraged by what I've understood so far. Could be more diagrams.... but those that are there are explained fully. Overall this is an excellent book.

I bought the second edition of this book- already owning the first edition. I commented the first edition was possibly the best book I had read on switching power supplies but could have done with covering more topologies.Well Sanjaya must of read this and other comments, as not only were other topologies detailed but the section on feedback loop analysis was increased and made so clear that I can finally understand Laplace transforms as applied to power supply stability. The additional circuits offer a wealth real world examples.Even if you own the first edition the second edition is worth buying.I can only hope his next edition of "Power Supply Optimistation" has been updated to include even more usefull information than the first. It is not often an author adds significant new material that makes the "upgrade" worthwhile (as my experience of keith Billings revised editions proves).Sanjayas books are worth buying even if you own and liked the earlier editions as (in my one experience to date) content is significantly increased with new content added and thought given to what could have been made clearer in the previous edition.In my opinion Sanjaya and Basso are the premier league authors on all things power.

Very useful book. Very good for reference and tips on SMPS design. I am so glad I came across this book as I deal with design of high power circuits and I have learned a lot from this book.

Everything I needed in one book.