067-Switchmode Buck Power Converter Using Current-Mode Control
James McLamara
04/10/2020
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Excellent review having had 18 years of experience designing power supplies and the associated controls. I can imagine though this course might be challenging for someone not familiar with power conversion, modulator design, and classical controls theory.
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067-Switchmode Buck Power Converter Using Current-Mode Control
David S Kirsch
08/21/2019
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I find the introductory material overly explained then later more interesting frequency domain stability material not described in sufficient detail (for me) for a thorough understanding. Consider this question(T/F); "Current-mode control signals can be obtained from the inductor parasitic ESR". . . .
Portions of the reviewers comments have been removed because they inaccurately discuss the correct answers to test questions
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067-Switchmode Buck Power Converter Using Current-Mode Control
Michael Madigan
10/24/2018
Good coverage of CM buck converters. The compensator value selection appears to be arbitrary, resulting in poles and zeros that happen to work. However, it is best to pick the p-z frequencies first in order to fit performance limits, then find the R's & C's to do the job.
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067-Switchmode Buck Power Converter Using Current-Mode Control
Paul Banaszak
10/18/2017
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A lot of reading between the lines and induction required to answer test questions. Very challenging.
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067-Switchmode Buck Power Converter Using Current-Mode Control
Don Edwards
12/24/2016
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Technical, but good. Some of the questions could be phrased better; they require close reading.
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067-Switchmode Buck Power Converter Using Current-Mode Control
Don Edwards
12/24/2016
Verified Buyer
Very technical but very good. The wording of some of the questions require close reading.
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Richard Neumann
02/09/2011
The course provided a good description of how this type of power supply worked. The description of the feedback system was thorough, but it was hard going for me since it has been a long time since I was involved with this. I would have liked to see a bit more on the hardward used to implement the control cycle.
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