PowerWise® Design University

Boost Converter Design Tips

Objective: To provide tips to engineers who are designing a boost application and those who are getting ready to debug a boost application.

Length: 90 minutes

Published Date: Jul 31, 05

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Online Seminar: Boost Converter Design Tips

About the Presentor: Alan Martin is a Field Applications Engineer with National Semiconductor in Santa Clara, California.

About the Instructor: Alan Martin is a Field Applications Engineer with National Semiconductor in Santa Clara, California.

Suggested Assignments

Recommended Reading:

Read the following application notes for details on power supply design:

AN-556 Introduction to Power Supplies
AN-558 - Introduction to MOSFETs and Their Applications
AN-1149 Layout Guidelines for Switching Power Supplies
AN-1221 LM2623 General Purpose, Boost Converter Circuit

Additional Resources:

To learn how to effectively use National's Power WEBENCH® online design environment to design switching regulators, see the following training material (broken into four parts for convenience:

Introduction (pdf 182KB)
Step 1: Choose a Part; Step 2: Create a Design (pdf 349KB)
Step 3: Electrical and Thermal Analysis (pdf 441KB)
Step 4: Build It! (pdf 157KB)

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Other Reading Material:

Switching Power Supply Design Chapter 1(Fundamental Switching Regulators Buck, Boost, and Inverter Topologies), by Abraham I. Pressman

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