A Good Distraction...

While working on the FPT chapter, I got a nagging feeling that I missed out something in the power supply section of Chapter 3. As it turned out, I forgot to include the topology diagrams for the linear types and went ahead to create and include them. And since I'm at it, I thought I might as well throw in some additional stuff——an ATX power supply as a PCB-RE example.

Here's a two-page sample:

In my search for a schematic diagram that best illustrates the SMPS design aspect for an ATX model, I found one that suits my expectation in terms of layout design——except that there are a number of errors in the component designations. I decided if I want it to look good in the book, I might as well redo and clean up the drawing myself.

Will revert back to writing the FPT chapter when I'm done with this task.