This textbook uses design insight, real-life examples, illustrative figures, easy-to-follow equations, and simple SPICE code to show how semiconductor devices (diodes, bipolar-junction transistors (BJTs), and metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) ) work independently and collectively in switched-inductor power supplies; how these power supplies transfer power, consume power, and react and respond across frequency; how feedback loops switch, control, and stabilize them; and how the building blocks that comprise them are implemented and designed. This book is focused and complete, with a holistic approach and perspective on power IC design that extends from semiconductor devices to fully-closed feedback systems. Readers will develop the insight needed to interpret, assess, and design switched inductor power ICs, which almost all electronic systems need, yet no other book addresses this way.

This slide book introduces the demands of emerging power-supply integrated circuits (ICs) and discusses up-to-date circuit-design techniques aimed at addressing them, especially within the context of portable microelectronics. The presentation reflects the "top-down design" systems-to-circuits approach that industry adopts when developing power-supply systems. Within this framework, concepts evolve organically "from the ground up" with an educational mindset, rigorously surveying, analyzing, and evaluating basic theory and the state of the art. In this way, the material presents, explains, and shows how to understand, develop, and use semiconductor devices to model, analyze, and design ICs that supply and sustain microelectronic loads. The ultimate objective is to cultivate and develop insight and intuition. Some of the topics covered include power consumption, frequency response, feedback control, and power supply rejection.

In "Triple Engagement--A Nomadic Storytelling Odyssey," Dr. Rincon-Mora weaves magnificent photographs from around the world, breathtaking prose, and moving poetry into lyrical harmony, creating riveting moods with magnetic storytelling quality.

He not only conveys the stories through prose, but also through pictures and poems, artfully crafting an entire emotional journey. The stories start "with a photograph, establishing...an emotional setting..." and end with a poem, which carries the story's "tone to a closing finish."

Fight with the narrator in "The Fight for mi Querida Daniela," or audition for a show in "Don't Call Us - We'll Call You!," or race in the streets of North Miami in "Boys will be Boys." Witness dangerously romantic interludes in the Costa Rican rainforest and China's Souzhou with "A Costa Rican Memento" and "Mimi - and her Unsuspecting Boyfriend Mao Mao." Feel the emotional destitution of "Rebirth," "Heart Attack," and "Goodbye," or listen to the buoyant and blissful messages of life and love in "Little Lots," "Ride the Friendly Skies," and "The Truth We Know."