Real-World Power Supply Design and Simulation

This paper attempts to address the practical design and simulation of power supplies. Formal circuit analysis provides a set of equations which is usually insufficient for solving all unknowns or calculating the values of all the components in the circuit being designed. Additional relationships or domain knowledge (industry-specific knowledge) is required to make up for the necessary equations to find all the unknown design values; otherwise the solution would need to resort to iterative approaches. In practice, design specifications that give extra relations, considerations based on domain knowledge, iterative methods, and simulation are integrated with circuit analysis to formulate effective power supply design strategies.