Book excerpt: This book collates the information available on this topic, hitherto only to be found in journals and at conferences. It presents the fundamentals and advances in average and small-signal modeling of switched-mode converters, before applying this information to generate a real canonical converter model. Practical examples are scattered throughout the text, and experimental evidence is cited to support theoretical findings. The result is a solid basis for understanding and utilizing the dynamics of switched-mode converters -- for the first time in their 40-year history.