PRACTICAL SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY DESIGN

By LINDA RAMIREZ

CONTENTS COMPLEX BEHAVIOR IN POWER ELECTRONICS CAPTURING POINCAR´E SECTIONS ON OSCILLOSCOPES ROLES OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS PROS AND CONS OF THE MODELS RECAPITULATION OF BASIC PHENOMENOLOGY BORDER COLLISION: IS IT IMPORTANT? RECAPITULATION A REMARK ON MODELING: CAN IT BE SIMPLER? USEFULNESS OF AVERAGED MODELS A NOTE ON FAST-SCALE AND SLOW-SCALE INSTABILITIES SUMMARY OF THE BASIC PHENOMENON