First and foremost, if you want to be a competent designer self education excellent
starting point. Everything fro ap notes to YouTube lessons to improve your competency
in the language and consideration of SMPS.
There is a wealth of design ap notes and papers on web, google "smps design pdf".
This will give you basic to in-depth overview of thousands of designs. More importantly
give you a basic understanding of architectures, pros and cons, considerations, like
magnetics, semiconductor.....PCB layout choices...... Pick at least one or more papers
on magnetics, MOSFET switching, rectifier considerations, control loop stability, capacitor
selection. You dont have to read the 10,000+ docs on this, just start with a few recent
dated ap notes and papers. A week of this will do wonders for your starting point.
A good book on Magnetics :
Thomas Brander, Alexander Gerfer, Bernhard Rall, Heinz Zenkner Cover Title Imprint Content Preface Thank you! The Authors I Basic principles 1 Basic principles of Swiridoff Verlag
Tools :
View the TI WEBENCH-CIRCUIT-DESIGNER Design tool downloads, description, features and supporting documentation and start designing.
www.ti.com
Many more. Pick a vendor, and focus on that tool. Most semi vendors have libs of
designs that can be imported into tools, like LTC Spice, Simetrix, Cadence...... that
you can look at working examples, play with to see effects. Personally Simetrix,
which was the tool of choice at Analog Devices before the Linear Technology
acquisition, best in class in terms of ease of probing and breadth of probe types.
Once you focus a little your questions will be more focused versus the very broad
initial post you provided. That way this forum, which in general does not do complete
designs, can aid in its experience expertise for working on specific problems.
Regards, Dana.