Two phase interleaved ISOP connected high step down ratio phase shift full bridge DC/DC converter with GaN FETs

High voltage DC (400 V) power supply architecture is becoming a standard in today's data center power supply. To further convert from 400 V to 1 V, usually several power stages are connected in series. Therefore, even if the efficiency of each power stage is high; the overall system efficiency is limited because of the multiplication of each converter's efficiency. In this paper, a single power stage system which converts 400 V to 1 V directly and performs as the high voltage point of load (HV POL) is proposed. A multi-phase interleaved phase shift pulse width modulation (PWM) DC/DC converter with input series and output parallel (ISOP) connection is selected as the power stage topology. A simplified two phase connected system is discussed in this paper. Common duty cycle control technique is used to control the ISOP connected converters. Input voltage sharing and output current sharing is analyzed with different types of mismatches in the circuit. Finally, the preliminary testing results are given.