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In partnership with Texas Instruments and Würth Elektronik:
Overview
If you feel that there are thousands of pages of information about power supply hardware design and you do not know where to start then this online workshop is for you.
Using a systematic and step-by-step approach, we start from the basics and guide you through the complete design of a power supply down to the last component.
We cover all design procedures, decision-making processes, compromises, calculations, and how to select suitable components, including the necessary safety margins.
By the end of the workshop, you will have designed a complete and fully functioning power supply, with all component part numbers specified.
If a suitable off-the-shelf component is not available, as is sometimes the case with magnetic components, you will learn how to calculate and specify the information that your custom magnetics design partner needs to construct your part to the correct specifications.
Using many videos, presentations, end-of-chapter quizzes, and design examples, each participant will learn how to design, select, and specify each component until the power supply design is complete. Where possible, we use freely available automated design tools to simplify laborious calculations, allowing participants to design, experiment, and learn effectively. In addition all participants will receive a free license* for our advanced Power Supply Design Software WDS to ease calculations.
A minimum of at least one complete real-life calculation and selection example is given for each and every component with not a single resistor excluded. Furthermore, to save you and your company time, a blank second example is given for you to redo the calculations based on your own design specification in parallel. Therefore, by the end of the workshop, not only will you have designed a complete power supply, you will have also calculated and selected many of the components of your own personal design.
You can enroll on the entire workshop and upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate for your personal development file. Alternatively, individual modules are available such as MOSFET selection or Control Loop Design if you are already an experience power supply designer and you do not wish to take part in the entire course. You will be given the option to chose the entire course or individual modules at checkout.
Even though this is an online course, we at Biricha understand the value of hands-on experiments for gaining experience and confidence in power supply design. Therefore, a series of additional "Power Supply Design Example Workshops with Labs" are also available to extend your knowledge and experience. These extra workshops use bespoke Design Example Kits (DEK) which are available for you to purchase and experiment with. These boards are designed specifically with teaching and learning in mind. The boards allow you to calculate your component values, solder them on the board, observe the waveforms with your oscilloscope, experiment, change values and learn. Please see our "Power Supply Design Example Workshops with Labs" page for more information.
Workshop Outline
- Power Supply Hardware Design Workshop:
- Topology selection
- Buck/Boost/Flyback/SEPIC/Forward
- Switching strategy
- Asynchronous switching, synchronous switching, synchronous with diode emulation
- Inductor selection
- Operation of the inductor in our power supply
- Conduction modes
- All inductor parameters needed for section (inductance, rated c current, saturation current magnetic material)
- Using free on-line tools to select narrow down and select your inductor quickly
- Real life design example down to component part number
- PWM Controller IC selection
- Selecting the correct IC for your application
- How read the datasheet and extract parameters that you need parameter
- Common calculations clock/soft start/bypass capacitance/control loop parameters
- High side/low side gate driver parameters and losses
- MOSFET selection
- MOSFET selection without switching loss calculations
- MOSFET Selection with switching loss calculation
- How read the datasheet and extract parameters that you need parameter
- Gate resistor calculations and selection
- Using free on-line tools to narrow down and select your MOSFET quickly
- Real life design example down to component part number
- Thermal design and heatsinking
- Diode selection
- Power diode types, parameters and selection
- How read the datasheet and extract parameters that you need parameter
- Using free on-line tools to narrow down and select your power diode quickly
- Real life design example down to component part number
- Input and output capacitor selection
- Why do we need input capacitance?
- Input ripple and noise reduction capacitance selection
- Input bulk capacitor selection
- Output capacitor calculations and selection
- Using free online tools for narrow down and select your capacitors quickly
- Real life design example down to component part number
- Current sensing
- Resistive current sense circuits and calculations
- Current sense transformers, circuits and selection
- Correct over current limiting
- Real life design example down to component part number
- Control loop design for non-isolated power supplies
- All that you need to know for fast control loop parameter calculation
- Control mode selection for your power (voltage mode, current mode, constant-on-time)
- What are Bode plots, how to get them, read then and use them
- Using various software tools to design control loops and calculate components quickly
- Things to try of your loop is unstable
- Real life design example down to component part number
- Current mode control headaches and slope compensation
- CoT design example
- Voltage mode design example
- Current mode design example
- RC snubber and RCD clamp design
- All topology RC snubber circuit calculation and component selection
- Flyback topology RCD clamp circuit calculation and component selection
- Using on-line tools to design RC snubber and RCD clamps quickly
- Real life design example down to component part number
- Transformer selection
- How to use/select the correct off-the-shelf transformer for your power supply
- How to specify transformer parameters needed your custom transformer design partner
- Real life design example down to component part number
- Topology selection
Pricing
- Power Supply Hardware Design Workshop: €1250 EUR (or $1350 USD) for one user.
- The online training portal and your WDS license will be accessible for 18-months from the date of registration. This means you will have 18-months to complete the workshop. After this time you can extend your registration on a monthly basis for a small fee.
- Alternatively, users can select individual modules within the workshop syllabus to purchase instead of the complete workshop.
Completion
Following completion of the workshop users will receive a certificate.
Prerequisites
The audience must have a degree in electrical/electronic engineering, computer science or equivalent.
These workshops are highly technical, intended for professional engineers and are not suitable for the general public without relevant qualifications.
Other Workshops
You may be interested in the following complimentary workshops:
- Opto-isolated Control Loop Design Workshop
- Constant-on-Time Buck Hands-On Design Example Workshop
- Asynchronous Buck Hands-On Design Example Workshop
- Synchronous Buck Hands-On Design Example Workshop
- Boost Hands-On Design Example Workshop
- Flyback Hands-On Design Example Workshop
- SEPIC Hands-On Design Example Workshop
* 12 month license. You must have unrestricted access to the internet. This software is not necessary for understanding the material in the class and is available upon request at a later date.
Pricing
Power Supply Hardware Design Workshop: €1250 EUR (or $1350 USD) for one user.
The online training portal and your WDS license will be accessible for 18-months from the date of registration. This means you will have 18-months to complete the workshop. After this time you can extend your registration on a monthly basis for a small fee.
Alternatively, users can select individual modules within the workshop syllabus to purchase instead of the complete workshop.
Workshop Registration
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Past Workshop Participants
Since 2008 Biricha has run highly popular hands-on workshops and industrial seminars. Some of the companies who have attended our workshops include: