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POWER INTEGRITY: Measuring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting Power-Related Parameters in Electronics Systems

Power Integrity provides engineers with expert insight on selecting and implementing appropriate test equipment to effectively measure increasingly higher speed electronics. The book contains field-tested information related to the interpretation of results, common measurement issues and resolutions, and application examples. You’ll learn how to select the appropriate equipment and use effective techniques to reduce production problems, improve performance, and provide a figure of merit for comparing different parts and manufacturers.

Switch-Mode Power Supply Simulation w/ PSpice and SPICE 3

In a reprint of Steve Sandler’s classic technical book, PWM models and power supply simulation solutions are described in depth—with special attention paid to practical magnetic components. All common topologies are discussed, including linear, buck and flyback converters. Practical guidance is given for EMI filtering and magnetics design and analysis. This book shows the correlation that is possible and proves that SPICE provides very accurate results if you start with an accurate model. Most of the book’s code (available to book purchasers) will run, unaltered, on all of popular SPICE versions, including PSpice, LTspice and TINA. Sometimes maligned, SPICE can provide very accurate results that correlate with real circuit operation if accurate models are used. As an internationally recognized power supply expert and zealot for improved power integrity, Steve Sandler’s classic Switched-Mode Power Supply Simulation is a valuable resource for any Engineer’s bookshelf.

Switch-Mode Power Supplies: SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs

"Switch Mode Power Supplies: SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs" offers a theoretical study of power conversion in the DC-DC and AC-DC fields via a systematic equation-based approach. Then, capitalizing on the experience accumulated by the author, the book takes you by the hand and shows how SPICE can help you to design Flyback and Forward converters, as well as power factor correctors, all with real world examples that are a perfect complement to the AEi Systems Power IC Model Library for PSpice. The CDROM found with the book contains some of the most popular demonstration versions of currently available simulation software. Some of the examples found in the book are made available in OrCAD, IsSpice and other formats such as Micro-Cap, TINA, Multisim, B2 Spice, and 5Spice. There are also demos for ICAPS, Micro-Cap, TINA, PSIM, and others.

Power Integrity Using ADS

In “Power Integrity Using ADS,” award-winning, internationally recognized power integrity guru, and Keysight Certified EDA expert, Steven M. Sandler and Anto K. Davis, share their simulation experience and workspaces to provide a quick and easy guide to best Power Integrity design practices and simulation techniques.

Modeling The Bipolar Transistor

The book describes the bipolar transistor model and parameter measurement techniques for the SPICE circuit simulator. Originally published by Tektronix in 1974, this is a slightly modified revision republished in 2009 by the original author.

SPICE Circuits Handbook

The time it takes to run a simulation is orders of magnitude less than the time it takes to build the equivalent circuit on a breadboard. A simulation can be run through any number of environmental conditions with ease–conditions often unavailable or impractical to duplicate in a laboratory environment. Circuit stimulus and tolerances and their effect on the operation of the circuit can be easily evaluated. Still, there are limitations to the capabilities of SPICE and similar circuit simulators. While the sophistication of simulation increases, the hardware breadboard will still remain a necessary step in the design process. This book will aid the engineer in using SPICE simulation as a very powerful tool in the design process.