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Custom prototype design and assembly
(through-hole and surface mount) - Advanced analog design -
Power electronics - Specialty power supply design - Quick turn-around prototypes |
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Magnetic design - Magnetic suspensions and Maglev - Magnetic braking - Actuators - Finite element analysis - Custom magnetics ·
Design
seminars ·
Analog
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Failure
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In
business since 1995 in the metro Boston/Worcester area, we provide
multidisciplinary engineering research and development in a variety of
electrical and mechanical areas, including advanced analog, power electronics,
electromechanical, thermal and magnetic design and failure investigations.
Background of Principal
Dr.
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For his excerpted curriculum vitae, follow this link.
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For thumbnail sketches of some of his past
engineering consulting projects, go here.
Engineering Consulting
and R/D
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Electromechanical actuators ·
High efficiency magnetic design ·
Eddy current braking ·
High speed, precision and low-noise analog
design ·
Power electronics and power converter design ·
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Advanced magnetic design ·
System modeling and simulation ·
Finite-element analysis ·
PSPICE and PSIM analysis for electronic, power
and thermal circuit design |
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Failure investigations ·
Maglev and magnetic suspensions ·
Control system design ·
Semiconductor laser diode drivers ·
Optoelectronics ·
Design seminars ·
Technical report preparation ·
Induction heating ·
MATLAB, Mathematica, Ansoft 3D, FEMM and
FastHenry analysis and simulation tools ·
Video circuits and systems |
Samples of course slides from Analog Circuits are here
and
here
Samples of slides from Power Electronics
Textbook ...
"Intuitive Analog Circuit Design"
Textbook
on intuitive analog design methods, available from Elsevier publishing (ISBN# 0750677864). The text includes a CD-ROM with Powerpoint
lecture slides and MATLAB design exercises.
The book table
of contents and preface are here, in PDF format.
For book errata, email the author directly.
Textbook ... "Power
Quality in Electrical Systems"
Textbook
on power quality standards, design issues and mitigating strategies, available
in 2007 from McGraw Hill, jointly authored with Dr. Alexander Kusko. An outline of the book is found here. A link to the
book front and back cover is shown here.
Amazon.com link to the book is here
Textbook ... "Analog
Circuits (World Class Designs)"
Contributor
of 3 chapters to "Analog Circuits (World Class Designs)," edited by
Bob Pease, available from Elsevier, fall 2007.
Textbook ...
"Portable Electronics (World Class Designs)"
Contributor
of 1 chapter to "Portable Electronics (World Class Designs)," edited
by John Donovan, available from Elsevier, 2009.
Education and Maglev
Research at M.I.T.
Dr. Thompson received the Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees in
Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His
doctoral thesis at MIT "High Temperature Superconducting Magnetic
Suspension for Maglev" concerned the design and test of high-temperature
superconducting suspensions for Maglev and the implementation of
magnetically-based ride quality control. Dr. Thompson has authored a number of
papers concerning superconducting magnetic suspension design, scaling laws, and
actuation.
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Some results of his Ph.D. thesis work and
pictures of the 1/5 scale-model magnetic Maglev suspension are here.
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More details of the construction and modeling of
the magnetic suspension are given in the paper here.
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A full listing of his Maglev-related
publications is given here.
Recent
Additions to Website
List of patents (downloadable in
PDF format)
Magnemotion M3 Maglev
system description
Description
of the General Atomics Urban Maglev System
Company overview is here (in PDF format).
A
bibliography of references related to inductance calculation methods
Analog
Circuits and Intuition, syllabus
Samples of slides from Analog
Circuits are here and here
A sample of slides from Power
Electronics
Notes from a 3-day seminar on electromechanics and machines: Day 1: Basics Day 2: Magnetics Day 3: Machines
Notes from a short course on
Power Quality: Power Quality Outline Notes on EMI Day 1 Notes 1 Day 1 Notes 2 Day 2 Notes 1 Day 2 Notes 2 Day 3 Notes 1 Day 3 Notes 2
Link
to Dr. Thompson’s patents at the USPTO
Dr. Thompson's
PhD Thesis is available using this link from the MIT library
Papers:
N. Medora, A. Kusko and M. Thompson, “Impact of Line Voltage Sag on
Switch Mode Power Supply Operation,” 2008 3rd IEEE Conference on
Industrial Electronics and Applications, June 3-5, 2008,
“Designing Video Circuits” --- Part 1 --- Part 2 --- Part 3
“Design Linear Circuits using OCTC
Calculations”
“SCTC
Analysis Estimates Low Frequency –3dB Point”
“Network Tricks Aid in OCTC Circuit
Analysis”
“Tips for Designing High-Gain Amplifiers”
M.
T. Thompson and M. F. Schlecht, "High Power Laser Diode
Driver Based on Power Converter Technology," IEEE Transactions on
Power Electronics, vol. 12, no. 1, Jan. 1997, pp. 46-52
"Simple Models and
Measurements of Magnetically-Induced Heating Effects in Ferromagnetic Fluids,"
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 34, no. 5, September 1998, pp.
3755-3764
M.
T. Thompson, R. D. Thornton and A. Kondoleon, "Scale Model
Flux-Canceling EDS Maglev Suspension --- Part I: Design and Modeling,"
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 35, no. 3, May 1999, pp. 1956-1963
M.
T. Thompson and R. D. Thornton, "Scale Model
Flux-Canceling EDS Maglev Suspension --- Part II: Test Results and Scaling
Laws," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 35, no. 3, May
1999, pp. 1964-1975
"Inductance Calculation
Techniques --- Part I: Classical Methods," Power Control and Intelligent Motion, vol. 25, no. 12, December
1999, pp. 40-45
"Inductance Calculation
Techniques --- Part II: Approximations and Handbook Methods," Power Control and Intelligent Motion,
website http://www.pcim.com
"Eddy Current
Magnetic Levitation--- Models and Experiments," IEEE Potentials,
vol. 19, no. 1, Feb./March 2000, pp. 40-44
Online
Symposium for Electrical Engineers, “Permanent Magnet
Electrodynamic Brakes…”
Online
Symposium for Electrical Engineers, “Inductance
Calculation Techniques…”
"Estimating Inductance
of Wire Loops," in Newsletter of the IEEE Power Electronics
Society, Volume 10, No. 2, April 1999, pp. 3
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Curriculum
Vitae of Marc Thompson, Ph.D
Thompson
Consulting Inc. consulting projects
Maglev
research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and other design seminars
Links to
manufacturers' websites, applications notes, etc.
Do you see any errors
or omissions? Please contact webmaster@thompsonrd.com
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