Knowledge is power for designers

Seminar series will focus on tips and tricks for power supply designers working with switch-mode controllers, isolated power supplies, power over Ethernet and LED lighting.

National Semiconductor is set to run a new series of technical courses on power management design in 14 cities throughout Europe and Israel.

The "Knowledge is power" series will run from 17th September to 11th October 2007, and complements National's recently completed power seminars by focusing on tips and tricks for power supply designers working with switch-mode controllers, isolated power supplies, power over Ethernet and LED lighting.

The courses will be taught by industry experts, including Prof Nicola Femia from the University of Salerno/Italy; power management specialists from National Semiconductor, a leader in power management design; and Coilcraft, a worldwide leader in chip inductors and power magnetics.

The training sessions will cover techniques, topologies and tools, accompanied by practical application examples, to address power supply design challenges.

Each one-day course consists of four training segments.

"Control techniques for switching power supplies" will offer practical step-by-step design optimisation procedures for the control of various DC/DC convertor topologies with particular emphasis on the exploration of feasible system design.

"Flyback design" will cover flyback convertor design featuring the LM5001 high-voltage switch-mode regulator and power-over-Ethernet design examples with National's LM5072 and LM5073 controllers.

"Optimising inductor selection for power supplies" will explain the selection of inductors for different topologies, with an emphasis on practical examples for buck and boost convertors (up to 40V in, 3A out).

And "Constant-current regulators" will furnish an overview of constant-current regulators with examples of hysteretic-mode, constant on-time and pulsewidth modulation (PWM) convertor topologies, often used for high-brightness LED drivers.

The registration fee for the full-day technical courses is Eur 99, and includes refreshments, lunch and seminar material (presentation handouts, application cookbook, CD-ROM).

The tour begins in Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, and includes presentations in Switzerland, Denmark, Bracknell and Manchester in the UK, France, Austria, The Netherlands, Spain, Verona and Milan in Italy, Israel and Sweden.

Full details and a booking form can be found on the National website.

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