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Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs Review

Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs
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Christophe Basso worked very hard giving years of his life to produce the best Switch-Mode Power Supply book available, by far. I have a large collection of books on SMPS and although many are very good books, they are not nearly as complete or practical as Basso's book. He derives all his equations and then shows many real world example designs from start to finish. In my opinion and the opinion of many power electronics professionals and power electronics college students, the averaged switch model is the easiest to create and most intuitive to understand and use. Basso has digested the best information from the best references and then creatively enhanced many models and invented new SPICE models/sub-circuits you need for large and small signal analysis and simulations with the SPICE of your choice. His knowledge of creating analog behavioral models (ABM) that perform just like the real components or circuit functions, is amazing. He created ABM PWMs from individual ABM components. Everything he creates, he verifies. You buy this book at a bargain price and get a CD with all the models/sub-circuits you need to check your existing designs and start new designs with the highest confidence. Once you look at his ABMs, you will want to create some of your own because it is so much fun. In a short time, I've used his models/sub-circuits and his techniques with PSPICE to identify lack of or no phase margin in Switch-Mode Power Supplies for a huge corporation. I have many more power supplies to analyze/simulate and several new ones to design.
I've worked as a power electronics engineer for many years and I'm so thankful to Christophe Basso for working so hard and smart to produce the best Switch-Mode Power Supply book ever written. Very thorough and very practical. Get this book and apply Basso's knowledge, techniques, and SPICE models/sub-circuits to your designs and you will never have another unstable Switch-Mode or Linear Power Supply.

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Harness Powerful SPICE Simulation and Design Tools to Develop Cutting-Edge Switch-Mode Power Supplies

Switch-Mode Power Supplies: SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs is a comprehensive resource on using SPICE as a power conversion design companion. This book uniquely bridges analysis and market reality to teach the development and marketing of state-of-the art switching converters. Invaluable to both the graduating student and the experienced design engineer, this guide explains how to derive founding equations of the most popular converters…design safe, reliable converters through numerous practical examples…and utilize SPICE simulations to virtually breadboard a converter on the PC before using the soldering iron.
Filled with more than 600 illustrations, Switch-Mode Power Supplies: SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs enables you to:
Derive founding equations of popular converters
Understand and implement loop control via the book-exclusive small-signal models
Design safe, reliable converters through practical examples
Use SPICE simulations to virtually breadboard a converter on the PC
Access design spreadsheets and simulation templates on the accompanying CD-ROM, with numerous examples running on OrCADË, ICAPSË, µCapË, TINAË, and more

Inside This Powerful SPICE Simulation and Design Resource
• Introduction to Power Conversion • Small-Signal Modeling • Feedback and Control Loops • Basic Blocks and Generic Models • Simulation and Design of Nonisolated Converters • Simulation and Design of Isolated Converters-Front-End Rectification and Power Factor Correction • Simulation and Design of Isolated Converters-The Flyback • Simulation and Design of Isolated Converters-The Forward

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Semiconductor Device Modeling with Spice Review

Semiconductor Device Modeling with Spice
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Spice is a software package that become a de facto standar in circuit simulation. But as in any other circuit simulator we need to define the accurate input model to get the accurate results. And this book describe in more detail the components that is used in almost any electronic circuit, i.e. semiconductor devices. The value that is a credit point for this book is not just how detail the description of the semiconductor model is in order to get the accurate parameters but also how to use those parameters in Spice. So, for you who new to this circuit simulator there is no need to worry because this book explain how the circuit model is built using Spice. And for you who need the basic theory of semiconductor model the book gives two nice appendices on that one. One chapter that is need to be explored in more detail is about noise and distortion (hopefully in the next edition the editor could have more on that topic). Finally, this is a "must be read" book for you who want to get excellent results in modelling electronic circuit.
(For you who understand more clearly in Indonesian) Spice adalah sebuah paket aplikasi yang secara defacto merupakan standar untuk simulai dan analisa rangkaian elektronik. Namun secara umum berlaku pula bahwa untuk menghasilkan simulasi rangkaian elektronik secara akurat dibutuhkan parameter-parameter yang akurat pula untuk setiap modelnya. Buku ini memberikan ulasan mendalam tentang parameter-parameter bagi pemodelan device semikonduktor. Kelebihan yang dimiliki buku ini tidak hanya pada bagaimana penghitungan dan pengukuran parameter untuk model tersebut tetapi bagaimana menggunakannya pada simulasi rangkaian menggunakan SPICE. Bagi Anda yang baru mendalami spice jangan khawatir karena buku ini juga memberikan ulasan tentang sistem pemodelan dalam spice. Sebaliknya bagi anda yang baru dalam pemodelan semikonduktor buku ini juga memberikan apendiks tentang teori dasar semikonduktor. Satu hal yang mungkin perlu dibahas lebih mendalam adalah tentang Nose dan Distorsi (mudah-mudahan dalam edisi berikutnya materi ini dapat lebih dikembangkan). Kesimpulannya, buku ini merupakan suatu buku yang wajib dibaca bila anda ingin lebih akurat dalam menjalankan simulasi rangkaian elektronik yang menggunakan semikonduktor.

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SPICE: Practical Device Modeling Review

SPICE: Practical Device Modeling
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The book is quite good for experienced spice users. I have used the software off and on for years, but found the information in the book to be an eye opener with regard to new approaches to using the product. The other Kielkowski book is more appropriate for beginning users.

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Circuit Simulation with SPICE OPUS: Theory and Practice (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology) Review

Circuit Simulation with SPICE OPUS: Theory and Practice (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology)
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Of all the SPICE books on my shelf (>20) this is probably the most important book on the basics of SPICE. There are plenty of good books on how to use SPICE; most focus on PSPICE, ISSPICE, HSPICE, or other commercial flavors of SPICE. Nothing wrong with after market documentation and commercial SPICE simulations; the commercial versions are certainly worth the price if you are a professional working for a company that has a liberal budget for CAD tools. Enter the SPICE OPUS team (and let's not forget the equally important Spice3 project, ngSpice, which is open source). If you are a user of SPICE OPUS, boasting over 10,000 users worldwide, or ngSpice, this book may very well be what you need if you are a novice of the classic SPICE3/Nutmeg software originating at Berkeley.
The SPICE OPUS team since the 1990s offers a free version of SPICE based on SPICE 3f4. SPICE OPUS is used worldwide in the area of research, education, and industry. This book is more than a well written user's guide of SPICE OPUS, it is the Crème de la Crème of SPICE user's manual. Inside you will find detailed information on the SPICE OPUS simulator. As the back cover of this book mentions, "This book is the first complete guide to analog circuit design using the circuit simulator software package SPICE OPUS". That said, there is a topic I was disappointed not to find in this edition: sensitivity analysis using the SPICE .SENSE control card. There is very little information on this aspect of SPICE yet this is an important topic for serious circuit designers.
Despite a missing topic, I believe this book is perfect for serious SPICE OPUS user (the target audience of the book), ngSpice users, and other SPICE flavors. SPICE users that have access to commercial versions, in my opinion, may find this book supplements their understanding of how SPICE works internally (I.E. your mileage may vary due to vendor customization of a particular version of SPICE). ngSpice user's would probably find this book valuable to gain an understand of SPICE internals when using or reading the source code. Near and dear to my interests, amateur radio, experimenters that want to apply circuit simulation tools to analog designs may find this book an excellent guide.
Individuals new to SPICE3 may wish to start with chapters 2, 3 and 4 where the authors bring you up to speed on how to use SPICE3 and NUTMEG (chapter 2), the SPICE3 input file format (chapter 3) and and overview of the analysis options (Chapter 4). The reader will them most likely move on the the following chapters to gain more expertise on advanced SPICE3 operation such as how to script NUTMEG, the mathematics behind SPICE3 and the details on how to control the output. I found chapter 1 to be an excellent introduction to circuit simulation, but chapter 1 is not necessary to learn how to use SPICE3 (although I recommend reading chapter 1 at some point).
Summarizing, this book is fantastic resource for the SPICE OPUS user and ngSpice user, and SPICE purest. For the commercial SPICE user, this book would probably be useful for additional insight into SPICE internals and may help explain certain issues with your version of SPICE. Note that this book is specific to SPICE3. SPICE2 is still available, but many recent versions of SPICE release focus on SPICE3.

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This book is a unique combination of a basic guide to general analog circuit simulation and a SPICE OPUS software manual, which may be used as a textbook or self-study reference. The book is divided into three parts: mathematical theory of circuit analysis, a crash course on SPICE OPUS, and a complete SPICE OPUS reference guide. All simulations as well as the free simulator software may be directly downloaded from the SPICE OPUS homepage: www.spiceopus.si.Circuit Simulation with SPICE OPUS is intended for a wide audience of undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in electrical and systems engineering, circuit design, and simulation development.

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