Handbook of Power Management Circuits

This book provides a comprehensive yet deep and wide description of DC-DC switching power supply circuits, to which much attention is being paid as a key technology in green IT, especially in automotive and consumer electronics industry. It covers buck converters, isolated converters, PFC converters, their modeling and analysis, several control methods, passive components, and their several recent applications (on-chip power supplies, DC-DC and AC-DC converter applications, single-inductor multi-output DC-DC converters, energy harvest applications, wireless power delivery, charge pump circuits, and power amplifiers). The authors are from academia and industry, so the contents are well balanced. All of the contributors have been engaged in the research and development of their respective areas. Some authors are pioneers and inventors, such as in hysteretic PWM and random switching controls. Thus, the book includes original content and lucid explanations of the various essential topics it covers.

Haruo Kobayashi received his B.S. and M.S. in information physics from the University of Tokyo in 1980 and 1982 respectively; an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1989; and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Waseda University in 1995. He joined Yokogawa Electric Corp., Tokyo, Japan, in 1982, and was engaged in research and development related to measuring instruments. In 1997, he joined Gunma University and is currently a professor in the Division of Electronics and Informatics there. His research interests include mixed-signal integrated circuit design and testing, power supply circuits, and signal-processing algorithms.

Takashi Nabeshima received his B.S. and M.S. in electronics engineering from Kumamoto University and a Dr.Eng. from Kyushu University, Japan, in 1975, 1977, and 1983, respectively. From 1977 to 1984, he was a research associate at the Department of Electronics, Kyushu University. From 1984 to 1991, he was an associate professor at Kumamoto University. In 1991, he joined Oita University and is currently a professor in the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering. He has been active in the field of power electronics.