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Summary: Table of contents
Review: 1. Introduction
I. Converters in Equilibrium
2. Principles of Steady-State Converter Analysis
3. Steady-State Equivalent Circuit Modeling, Losses, and Efficiency
4. Switch Realization
5. The Discontinuous Conduction Mode
6. Converter Circuits
II. Converter Dynamics and Control
7. AC Equivalent Circuit Modeling
8. Converter Transfer Functions
9. Controller Design
10. Ac and Dc Equivalent Circuit Modeling of the Discontinuous Conduction Mode
11. Current Programmed Control
III. Magnetics
12. Basic Magnetics Theory
13. Filter Inductor Design
14. Transformer Design
IV. Modern Rectifiers and Power System Harmonics
15. Power and Harmonics in Nonsinusoidal Systems
16. Line-Commutated Rectifiers
17. The Ideal Rectifier
18. Low Harmonic Rectifier Modeling and Control
V. Resonant Converters
19. Resonant Conversion
20. Quasi-Resonant Converters
Appendices
1. RMS Values of Commonly-Observed Converter Waveforms
2. Magnetics Design Tables
3. Averaged Switch Modeling of a CCM SEPIC
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Summary: Execellent Book
Review: First off, this book is NOT a cookbook. It will not tell you how to design a power supply for a specific application. But this is not the books purpose. This book is written for those who wish to understand in depth knowledge of power conversion. It is written as a text book. If the reader took the time to understand what is written (and it is written well) then the person would be able to design a power supply for any application using any topolgy. It teaches you the first principles of power conversion in order for you to apply it. Out of all my power electronic books this is my favorite book by far. If you are a power supply designer this book is a must.
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Summary: Powerfully good
Review: Fundamentals of Power Electronics, by Erickson and Maksimovic, has become one of my new favorite reference books for DC-DC Converter design. My library is full of similar books, but most only contain insignificant bits of information, are needlessly difficult, or just plain worthless (but a requisite in the power engineering bookcase). The massive FPE combines the best of them all, exceeding even my former favorites (those by Tater, Billings, or Pressman). Although written as a textbook with the usual exercises at the end of each chapter (and frustratingly, with no answers) it is full of practical, applicable information. It has excellent chapters on inductors and transformers, with practical information such as inter-weaved windings for reduced leakage. It has one of the best treatments of Bode plots than any one book I have contains (I can now retire my old Valkenburg). Thankfully, it does not waste pages with useless Nyquist or other esoteric loop stability analysis methods. Nice index and appendix. I wish Maksimovic had included a section on his famous switched-capacitor circuit, even if not technically a power circuit. I highly recommend this book for any engineer seriously involved in power electronics.
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Summary: Best on switched power supplies.
Review: I bought 2 other books on power supplies, before I found this book. This is a great book. Covers a lot of subjects in great detail and actually tries to explain things. What would have made this book an outstanding textbook would have been an introductory chapter on basic ideas. For example: What is the difference between a transformer and two mutually coupled inductors assuming all components are ideal? Why is it that you can't store energy in a transformer? etc.
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Summary: One of the best technical text books I've ever encountered
Review: I found this book to be one of the best technical text books I've ever read, for general, electrical engineering students. Chapters can be long and hard to chew through at times, but the explanations are very well laid out, with examples/discussion on topics that lead you prepared, directly into the problems in the text. The only thing really lacking is a solutions set with answers, although you can find a highly abbreviated version on Erickson's webpage. Bode plots section, magnetics/transformer design sections were very good. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting a solid understanding in introductory power electronics circuit design!
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Summary: Fundamentals of Power Electronics lacks practicality.
Review: I had bought this book to get a fundamental understanding of how to build a circuit for a particular application. Forget it! After reading this book, I defy the beginner to build a practical circuit to do what he needs from this textbook. Essentially I found the treatment to be reminiscent of all the badly written textbooks that I and others had to endure in college engineering courses -- heavy emphasis on trivial detail, whil glossing over the really vital knowledge that is actually needed in the real world. There were no practical examples worked out that were of any interest in the real world. This is typical with textbooks written by college profs. For someone with no fundamental knowledge of electronics, except perhaps having a vague memory for what a resistor, capacitor and inductor does, this book does little to ease one into a fundamental understanding of power electronics. Specific examples include the lack of any explanation as to what an oscillting "switch" is. Is this cryptic piece electronics hardware a common off the shelf product? If so, it would be nice to have a brief explanation of just what exactly it is made of. Is it in the family of semiconductors? Who knows! This textbook certainly doesn't even attempt to warm the reader up to this exotic piece of hardware. Instead, it is introduced as if it came from some whitebread god, much like the dreary old physics textbooks did when going on and on about thermodynmics and quantum theory. The book would be vastly improved if the author took the time and effort to work out more useful examples. And this textbook is not unique in its overall lack of quality. I have yet to come across a textbook on power electronics that gives a working example of how to calculate and build for a circuit that most folks are really looking for: How to build a black box that transforms a low dc voltage into a pulsed high dc voltage.
And therein lies the rub.
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Summary: Fundamentals of Power Electronics lacks practicality.
Review: I had bought this book to get a fundamental understanding of how to build a circuit for a particular application. Forget it! After reading this book, I defy the beginner to build a practical circuit to do what he needs from this textbook. Essentially I found the treatment to be reminiscent of all the badly written textbooks that I and others had to endure in college engineering courses -- heavy emphasis on trivial detail, whil glossing over the really vital knowledge that is actually needed in the real world. There were no practical examples worked out that were of any interest in the real world. This is typical with textbooks written by college profs. For someone with no fundamental knowledge of electronics, except perhaps having a vague memory for what a resistor, capacitor and inductor does, this book does little to ease one into a fundamental understanding of power electronics. Specific examples include the lack of any explanation as to what an oscillting "switch" is. Is this cryptic piece electronics hardware a common off the shelf product? If so, it would be nice to have a brief explanation of just what exactly it is made of. Is it in the family of semiconductors? Who knows! This textbook certainly doesn't even attempt to warm the reader up to this exotic piece of hardware. Instead, it is introduced as if it came from some whitebread god, much like the dreary old physics textbooks did when going on and on about thermodynmics and quantum theory. The book would be vastly improved if the author took the time and effort to work out more useful examples. And this textbook is not unique in its overall lack of quality. I have yet to come across a textbook on power electronics that gives a working example of how to calculate and build for a circuit that most folks are really looking for: How to build a black box that transforms a low dc voltage into a pulsed high dc voltage. And therein lies the rub.
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Summary: Lots of information with some open ended information
Review: I would agree with the other reviewer that this is not a "how to" book. The book approaches the subject from an academic viewpoint. The reader is expected to fill in between the lines with previous experience. It appears that the authors, professors as U of C, supplement the text with worked out examples for their students. I would recomend it to people already versed in the subject and want more information.I found it for half price and this makes it worth buying as a reference.
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Summary: Lots of information with some open ended information
Review: I would agree with the other reviewer that this is not a "how to" book. The book approaches the subject from an academic viewpoint. The reader is expected to fill in between the lines with previous experience. It appears that the authors, professors as U of C, supplement the text with worked out examples for their students. I would recomend it to people already versed in the subject and want more information.I found it for half price and this makes it worth buying as a reference.
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Summary: Outstanding presentation and development
Review: This book helped me to really understand beyond the conceptual level. This book will guide the reader through the different aspects of analysis and design of power electronics systems without left behind the very practical hints. The course slides from the book web site are an excellent resource for instructors using this book. I dare my self to say that this book after Kassakian's is the best book in power electronics.
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