TY - BOOK AU - Umanand, L. TI - Power Electronics: Essentials and Applications SN - 9788126519453 U1 - 621.3 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi : PB - Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., KW - Power electronics KW - Switching power supplies N1 - 1. Power semiconductor switches -- ; 2. Drive circuits -- ; 3. Rectifiers -- ; 4. DC-DC linear regulators -- ; 5. DC-DC switched-mode converters -- ; 6. DC-AC switched-mode converters -- ; 7. Design of magnetics -- ; 8. Modeling of systems -- ; 9. Control system essentials -- ; 10. Digital controller design -- ; 11. Optimal and robust controller design -- ; 12. Discrete computation essentials -- ; 13. Thermal aspects -- ; 14. Reliability modeling -- ; 15. Reliability prediction N2 - This book on power electronics spans a wide knowledge base such as power devices, drives, circuit topologies, magnetics, system modeling, control configurations, digital processing, thermal and reliability aspects. The book has been broadly divided into two types of topics viz. (a) circuit-oriented aspects and (b) system-oriented aspects. The first seven chapters deal with circuit-oriented aspects of power electronics systems and the remaining chapters deal with system-oriented aspects like controls and reliability ER -