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Power Supply Design Workshops in UK and USA

September 04, 2014 by Jeff Shepard

Registration is now open for our four-day comprehensive Power Supply Design Workshops organized by Ridley Engineering, Inc. Mornings are steeped in theory, design ideas, control schemes and magnetics applications. Afternoons are spent in the lab exploring and applying concepts, winding custom magnetics, building and testing circuits, and optimizing designs. Only 30 engineers are accepted, creating a small group environment to maximum assistance in the lab with two instructors. Dates and locations are: 27-30 October 2014, in Cambridge, UK; and 2-5 December 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Mornings are steeped in theory, design ideas, control schemes and magnetics applications. Afternoons are spent in the lab exploring and applying concepts, winding custom magnetics, building and testing circuits, and optimizing designs. Each engineer receives the following: Four days intensive training guaranteed to improve design skills and reduce design cycle time; POWER 4-5-6 Control and Magnetics Design Software, by Dr. Ray Ridley; The industry’s leading software for comprehensive power supply design; and Lab notes, course notes, breakfast and lunch.

This is an industry-centric workshop guaranteed to provide skills that will boost productivity. See immediate results in the following areas: New hire engineers will move rapidly from inexperienced to highly productive with a structured design approach. Experienced engineers will refine their skills and accelerate their design with our unique tools and common-sense training. Design, build, test and debug a flyback power supply for multiple outputs using any controller—suitable for bias supplies up to 50 W, motor drive gate drives, consumer and industrial electronics. Design, build, test and debug a forward power supply using any controller—suitable for power levels to 200 W.

Students will gain an understanding how to design, specify and qualify transformers and inductors from vendors or for custom production—with power levels to 10 kW. Learn how to measure control transfer functions and optimize loops for single and multi-loop converters at power levels to 10 kW. Reduce days of trial-and-error feedback design to just a few hours with our structured approach. And learn how digital control will impact design in the future.