Part 1: Functions and Requirements Common to Most Direct Off-Line Switchmode Power Supplies ; Chapter 1. Common Requirements: An Overview; Chapter 2. AC Powerline Surge Protection; Chapter 3. Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) in Switchmode Power Supplies; Chapter 4. Faraday Screens; Chapter 5. Fuse Selection; Chapter 6. Line Rectification and Capacitor Input Filters for 'Direct Off-Line' Switchmode Power Supplies Chapter 7. Inrush Control; Chapter 8. Start-Up Methods; Chapter 9. Soft Start and Low-Voltage Inhibit; Chapter 10. Turn-On Voltage Overshoot Prevention; Chapter 11. Overvoltage Protection; Chapter 12. Undervoltage Protection; Chapter 13. Overload Protection; Chapter 14. Foldback (Reentrant) Output Current Limiting; Chapter 15. Base Drive Requirements for High-Voltage Bipolar Transistors; Chapter 16. Proportional Drive Circuits for Bipolar Transistors; Chapter 17. Antisaturation Techniques for High-Voltage Transistors; Chapter 18. Snubber Networks; Chapter 19. Cross Conduction; Chapter 20. Output Filters; Chapter 21. Power Failure Warning Circuits; Chapter 22. Centering (Adjustment to Center) of Auxiliary Output Voltages on Multiple-Output Converters; Chapter 23. Auxiliary Supply Systems; Chapter 24. Parallel Operation of Voltage: Stabilized Power Supplies; Part 2: Design: Theory and Practice ; Chapter 1. Multiple-Output Flyback Switchmode Power Supplies; Chapter 2. Flyback Transformer Design; Chapter 3. Reducing Transistor Switching Stress; Chapter 4. Selecting Power Components for Flyback Converters; Chapter 5. The Diagonal Half-Bridge Flyback Converter; Chapter 6. Self-Oscillating Direct-Off-Line Flyback Converters; Chapter 7. Applying Current-Mode Control to Flyback Converters; Chapter 8. Direct-Off-Line Single-Ended Forward Converters; Chapter 9. Transformer Design for Forward Converters; Chapter 10. Diagonal Half-Bridge Forward Converters; Chapter 11. Transformer Design for Diagonal Half-Bridge Forward Converters; Chapter 12. Half-Bridge Push-Pull Duty-Ratio-Controlled Converters; Chapter 13. Bridge Converters; Chapter 14. Low-Powered Self-Oscillating Auxiliary Converters; Chapter 15. Single-Transformer Two-Transistor Self-Oscillating Converters; Chapter 16. Two-Transformer Self-Oscillating Converters; Chapter 17. The DC-to-DC Transformer Concept; Chapter 18. Multiple-Output Compound Regulating Systems; Chapter 19. Duty-Ratio-Controlled Push-Pull Converters; Chapter 20. DC-to-DC Switching Regulators; Chapter 21. High-Frequency Saturable Reactor Power Regulator (Magnetic Duty Ratio Control); Chapter 22. Constant-Current Power Supplies; Chapter 23. Variable Linear Power Supplies; Chapter 24. Switchmode Variable Power Supplies; Chapter 25. Switchmode Variable Power Supply Transformer Design; Part 3: Applied Design ; Chapter 1. Inductors and Chokes in Switchmode Supplies; Chapter 2. High-Current Chokes Using Iron Powder Cores; Chapter 3. Choke Design Using Iron Powder Toroidal Cores; Chapter 4. Switchmode Transformer Design (General Principles); Chapter 5. Optimum 150-W Transformer Design Example Using Nomograms; Chapter 6. Transformer Staircase Saturation; Chapter 7. Flux Doubling; Chapter 8. Stability and Control-Loop Compensation in SMPS; Chapter 9. The Right-Half-Plane Zero; Chapter 10. Current-Mode Control; Chapter 11. Optocouplers; Chapter 12. Ripple Current Ratings for Electrolytic Capacitors; Chapter 13. Noninductive Current Shunts; Chapter 14. Current Transformers; Chapter 15. Current Probes for Measurement Purposes; Chapter 16. Thermal Management; Part 4: Supplementary ; Chapter 1. Active Power Factor Correction; Chapter 2. The Merits and Limitations of Hard Switching and Fully Resonant Switchmode Power Supplies; Chapter 3. Quasi-Resonant Switching Converters; Chapter 4. A Fully Resonant Self-Oscillating Current Fed FET Type Sine Wave Inverter; Chapter 5. A Single Control Wide Range Sine Wave Oscillator; Glossary; References; Index