Smart Power ICs: Technologies and Applications (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, 6)

I first saw this book in 1997, the second year after the first version of this book, when I was in my master's program in China. I didn't pay much attention to it since my future job will not involve high-power or high-voltage IC design. After I graduated from UT, I got a job offer from a semiconductor company and became an engineer to design products related to power electronics. Then,I bought this book for my job. This book was written by a group of very experienced engineers in ST microelectronics ten years ago. I am surprised this book is still very useful today. Part of the contents maybe are out of date, but most of the chapters were still used again and again in modern designs. I wish these authors can rewrite this book and include some latest developments in both academic and industry. Overall, this is an awesome book for engineers who will start their careers in power electronics. I recommend it.

Smart power ICs isn't a conventional DC/DC-converter control cook book. Instead it covers wide range problems/design issues that need to be considered when designing switching converter ICs.