Switching Power Supply Design Optimization by Sanjaya Maniktala bridges theoretical power electronics with practical hardware engineering, focusing on efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and thermal management. The text covers loop control, magnetic design, and EMI/EMC techniques for engineers designing DC-DC and AC-DC converters.
Maniktala's Optimization: Instead of blindly increasing the snubber capacitor, he shows that you can optimize the transformer winding technique (sandwich winding or interleaving) to reduce leakage inductance from 5% to 1% of magnetizing inductance. He then mathematically proves that reducing leakage inductance reduces snubber loss by the square of the reduction factor. The book includes a step-by-step design example where efficiency jumps from 78% to 85% simply by rewinding the transformer properly—no change to silicon. Calculate Duty Cycle: D = Vout/Vin = 0
Maniktala destroys that complacency in Chapter 1. and the supply passes EMC testing.