How to Design Perfect Switching Power Supply - Buck Regulator Explained

This course explains buck regulator architecture and switching power supply design, covering controllers, gate drivers, FETs, inductors, capacitors, control modes, probing, snubbers, dead time, stability, transient response, and multiphase regulators.

Syllabus

Main parts of a buck regulator
Switching power supply controller
Gate driver and FETs
Inductor and Capacitor
Integrated SMPS: Controller + Gate Driver + FETs
Power supply module
PMBUS
Control modes
DrMOS: Gate Driver + FETs
Control scheme, Voltage mode vs. Current mode
What frequency to use in switching power supply?
About inductor
About capacitors, capacitor derating
Gate resistors, RGATE
CBOOT, Boot resistor, RBOOT
How to measure switching power supply signals, probing
Phase snubber RSNUB, CSNUB
VIN Capacitor
Phase node, switching node, ringing
Shoot-Through
Dead Time, diodes
Stability / Jitter
Transient response
Multiphase regulators