Switching Power Supply Design - Third Edition

Switching Power Supply Design - Third Edition Abraham I. Pressman Keith Billings Taylor Morey New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon Lo...

Switching Power Supply Design - Third Edition
Abraham I. Pressman
Keith Billings
Taylor Morey

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Abraham I. Pressman was a nationally known power supply consultant and lecturer. His background ranged from an Army radar officer to over four decades as an analog-digital design engineer in industry.

He held key design roles in a number of significant Āfirstsā in electronics over more than a half century: the first particle accelerator to achieve an energy over one billion volts, the first high-speed printer in the computer industry, the first spacecraft to take pictures of the moonÿs surface, and two of the earliest textbooks on computer logic circuit design using transistors and switching power supply design, respectively. Mr. Pressman was the author of the first two editions of Switching Power Supply Design. Keith Billings is a Chartered Electronic Engineer and author of the Switchmode Power Supply Handbook, published by McGraw-Hill. Keith spent his early years as an apprentice mechanical instrument maker (at a wage of four pounds a week) and followed this with a period of regular service in the Royal Air Force, servicing navigational instruments including automatic pilots and electronic compass equipment.

Keith went into government service in the then Ministry of War and specialized in the design of special test equipment for military applications, including the UK3 satellite. During this period, he became qualified to degree standard by an arduous eight-year stint of evening classes (in those days, the only avenue open to the lower middle-class in England). For the last 44 years, Keith has specialized in switchmode power supply design and manufacturing. At the age of 75, he still remains active in the industry and owns the consulting company DKB Power, Inc., in Guelph, Canada. Keith presents the late Abe Pressmanÿs four-day course on power supply design (now converted to a Power Point presentation) and also a one-day course of his own on magnetics, which is the design of transformers and inductors. He is now a recognized expert in this field. It is a sobering thought to realize he now earns more in one day than he did in a whole year as an apprentice.

Keith was an avid yachtsman for many years, but he now flies gliders as a hobby, having built a high-
performance sailplane in 1993. Keith Ātouched the face of god,ā achieving an altitude of 22,000 feet in wave lift at Minden, Nevada, in 1994.
Taylor Morey, currently a professor of electronics at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, is coauthor of an electronics devices textbook and has taught courses at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo. He collaborates with Keith Billings as an independent power supply engineer and consultant and previously worked in switchmode power supply development at Varian Canada in Georgetown and Hammond Manufacturing and GFC Power in Guelph, where he first met Keith in 1988. During a five-year sojourn to Mexico, he became fluent in Spanish and taught electronics engineering courses at the Universidad Católica de La Paz and English as a second language at CIBNOR biological research institution of La Paz, where he also worked as an editor of graduate biology studentsÿ articles for publication in refereed scientific journals.

Earlier in his career, he worked for IBM Canada on mainframe computers and at Global TVÿs studios in Toronto.

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