Includes index.

Print version c2011.

Part 1. Functions and requirements common to most direct-off-line switchmode power supplies -- Part 2. Design: theory and practice -- Part 3. Applied design -- Part 4. Supplementary.

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 --

Multiple-output flyback switchmode power supplies -- Flyback transformer design -- Reducing transistor switching stress -- Selecting power components for flyback converters -- The diagonal half-bridge 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-power self-oscillating auxiliary converters -- Single-transformer two-transistor self-oscillating converters -- Two-transformer self-oscillating converters -- The DC-to-DC transformer concept -- Multiple-output compound regulating systems -- Duty-ratio-controlled push-pull converters -- DC-to-DC switching regulators -- High-frequency saturable reactor power regulator (magnetic duty ratio control) -- Constant-current power supplies -- Variable linear power supplies -- Switchmode variable power supplies -- Switchmode variable power supply transformer 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 in switchmode power supplies --

Active power factor correction -- The merits and limitations of hard switching and fully resonant switchmode power supplies -- Quasi-resonant switching converters -- A fully resonant self-oscillating current fed FET type sine wave inverter -- A single control wide range sine wave oscillator.

Also issued in print and PDF version.

Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on July 14, 2011.