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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 this field.
