Welcome to this tutorial providing basic power supply knowledge for engineers, manufacturers, students, and interested hobbyists. Our desire is to foster understanding about electronic power supplies so that you may have success in energizing your products.
This tutorial will be a continual development with new topics added on a regular basis. For your convenience, we are providing a table of contents outlining the available topics for your reading. Topics shown are those presently planned. If the topic is not shown as linked, that topic is not developed yet.
Table of Contents
The Achille’s Heel of Electronics Products
Power Supply Capacitors and Inductors
Power Semiconductor Switches, Ideal Switches
Power Semiconductor Switches, Classification
Power Semiconductor Switches, PIN Diode, BJT, IGBT, Thyristor
Power Semiconductor Switches, MOSFETs and Schottky Diodes
Topologies
Buck and Buck Derived Topologies
Buck
Forward
Two-Switch Forward
Push-Pull
Half-Bridge
Full-Bridge
Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge
Dual Active Bridge
Boost
Buck-Boost and Buck-Boost Derived Topologies
Buck-Boost
Flyback
Cuk
SEPIC
Inverse SEPIC (Zeta)
Non-Inverting Buck-Boost
Watkins-Johnson
Inverse Watkins-Johnson
Buck-Squared
Current-Fed Designs
Hard Switching
Soft Switching
Voltage Multiplication
Charge Pumps
Resonant Designs
Control Modes
Parasitic Elements
EMC
Power Factor Correction
Start Up Issues
Input Filter Output Oscillation
DV/DT Induced Turn-On