Power Electronics and Switched-Mode Power Supply - Free resources

All the links provided in this list are free available material. The rights belong to the respective author(s).

Contents

• Academic Courses
• Power electronics and SMPS design
• Vendors resources
• Selected topics
• SPICE
• EMI/EMC
• News
• Tools

Academic Courses

• :tv: [CU Boulder] Power Electronics Specialization - 4-part course from Colorado University, held by Prof. Erickson
• [CU Boulder] Introduction to Power Electronics - Archived website of Introduction to Power Electronics from Colorado University, by Prof. Erickson
• [CU Boulder] Resonant and Soft-Switching Techniques in Power Electronics - Archived website of Resonant and Soft-Switching Techniques from Colorado University, by Prof. Khurram Afridi
• [University of Strathclyde] Power Electronics: Devices, Drivers, Applications, and Passive Components - This is a free available power electronics book by Prof. Barry Williams, with an impressive amount of theory and practical informations from basic semiconductors to AC/AC, AC/DC, DC/AC, DC/DC and ancillary topics
• :tv: Sam Ben-Yaakov - Probably the best lectures available around. Many different aspects of the subject are treated simply and clear, can’t recomment enough
• :tv: CUSP Website - Curriculum with freely available videocourse (and material) covering Power Electronics (basic, control, advanced topics), Power systems and drives.
• :tv: Ozan Keysan’s courses - EE463 and EE464 are core course for PE specialization at Middle East Technical University (METU)
• [UPSAS] Accelerator Power Electronics Engineering - US Particle accelerator school provides course for physicists and engineers about power electronics used in accelerator facilities
• [UPSAS] Pulsed Power Engineering - US Particle accelerator school provides course about pulsed power engineering
• :tv: :it: [UniPI] Elettronica di Potenza e Controllo - Lezioni del corso Elettronica di Potenza e Controllo dell’Università di Pisa del Prof. Iannaccone.
• :tv: NPTEL (India) power electronics related course:
  • High Power Multilevel Converters- Analysis, design and operational issues (Prof. Anand Rup)
  • Control and Tuning Methods in Switched Mode Power Converters (Prof. Santanu Kapat)
  • Design and Simulation of DC-DC converters using open source tools (Prof. L. Umanand)
  • Digital Control in Switched Mode Power Converters and FPGA-based Prototyping (Prof. Santanu Kapat)
  • Power Electronics and Distributed Generation (Prof. Vinod John)
  • Design of Power Electronic Converters (Prof. Shabari Nath)
  • Switched Mode Power Conversion (Prof. V. Ramanarayanan, Prof. L. Umanand)
  • Pulse width Modulation for Power Electronic Converters (Prof. G. Narayanan)
• :tv: Dr. D. Sreenivasarao’s courses:
  • Advanced Power converters
  • Applications of power converters
  • High power inverters

Power electronics and SMPS design

• How2Power - Lot of good design guides
• PSMA - Power Sources Manufacturers Association
• Ridley Engineering - Ray Ridley’s power supply design center
• SMPS - Switching mode PS guide from Lazar Rozenblat
• Switching-Mode Power Supply Design Problem List - Archived page from SPMPSTech.com by Jerrold Foutz
• Biricha - Good articles and videos by Dr. Ali Shirsavar
• Christophe Basso’s home page - Home page of C. Basso, well known for his books on SMPS Spice simulation and converter control
• :tv: Robert Bolanos

Vendors resources

• RoHM - Thermal design, simulations, switching noise, DC/DC converters, …
• :tv: [TI] Power supply design seminars
• :tv: Frenetic - Interesting webminars about magnetics design for power electronics. Also, they make use of AI for their magnetic design
• :tv: Semikron Youtube Channel. Good videos among technical marketing. Highly recommend:
  • How to read an IGBT module datasheet
  • Thermal resistance of power modules

Selected topics

• Lost Secrets of the H-Bridge by Jason Sachs - Series of articles on in-depth analysis of H-bridge, with Python code.
• :tv: Eaton’s Experience centers - Hands-on videos about a broad range of topics, even though not directly related to PE
• PELS ETH Publications - Publications from the Power Electronics System Laboratory of ETH Zurich. High-quality presentations and thesis available.
• :tv: Step-by-step Snubber and Clamp Design for Power Supplies Dr. Ali Shirsavar
• :tv: Introductory lecture about the simulation of Inverter EMC
• :tv: Switching Power Supply PCB Layout Seminar
• :tv: Many EMC Tips to Help You Design Better PCB Boards

SPICE

• [AD] LTSpice Download and information center - Home page of Analog Device LTSpice, with download links and tutorial
• LTSpice unofficial Wiki - Wiki full of tips and undocumented features
• LTSpice tutorial - LTSpice tutorial by Terry Sturtevant
• LTSpice tutorial - LTSpice tutorial by Simon Bramble
• LTSpice tutorial - LTSpice from SPICEMAN
• YouSPICE - A community for electronic design and simulation

EMI/EMC

• Academy of EMC - A nice introduction to EMI/EMC
• LearnEMC - Rich site offering paid course and free articles
• Noise Suppression Basic Course from Murata - Noise Suppression Basic Course from Murata
• :tv: [TI] Achieving low noise and low EMI performance with DC/DC switching regulators
• :tv: [TI] Designing a low-EMI power supply
• :tv: Interference Technology - Many videos about EMI/EMC issues and mitigation
• :tv: [Keysight] Reducing Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) in Switched-Mode Power Supplies
• :tv: [Würth Elektronik] Webinar: How to select the right EMC ferrite?

News

• http://www.bodospower.com/default.aspx https://www.edn.com/ https://eepower.com/ https://www.eeworldonline.com/ https://www.eetimes.com/ https://www.eeweb.com/ https://www.electronicdesign.com/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/ http://www.powerelectronics.com/ https://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/ http://www.powerguru.org/ https://www.powerelectronictips.com/

Tools

• PowerEsim - Free Switch Mode Power Supply Circuit (SMPS) Design Software & Transformer Calculation / Simulation Tool
• Air flow calculator - :it: but straightforward to use. Useful to calculate airflow needed in the cabinet.
• PressureDrop - Useful for liquid cooling pipe sizing
• Okawa Electric design - Several design utilities, including one for filter design
• Precharge calculator - Useful for a quick precharge resistor estimation
• :tv: Python
  • Python for Control Engineering
  • Mastering Python Libraries - 5 videos playlist about NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, SymPy and Python Image segmentation
  • Introduction to Numerical Computing With NumPy