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Wolfspeed SiC Technology Boosts Datacentre Efficiency

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SiC MOSFET technology enables power supplies to Ashieve 80+ Titanium efficiency eating in datacentre applications
SiC MOSFET technology enables power supplies to Ashieve 80+ Titanium efficiency eating in datacentre applications

Wolfspeed, a Cree company, has developed a reference design around its latest low-inductance SiC MOSFET that allows datacentre power supplies to achieve or exceed an 80+ Titanium rating.

The design demonstrates the implementation of a totem-pole PFC topology in a 2kW bridgeless power supply that is capable of easily exceeding the 80+ Titanium standards, with actual results of 98.7 percent peak efficiency at half load and 98.55 percent efficiency at full load – both taken at 230V redundant operation.

Power supply design engineers have faced significant challenges in attaining these efficiency levels using conventional silicon switching devices due to their higher losses and the need for more complex topologies.

“Using Wolfspeed’s latest SiC MOSFETs in a totem-pole PFC design allows our server power systems to achieve an 80+ Titanium efficiency rating,” said Nash Chen, staff engineer for cloud computing at Chicony Power Technology. “Wolfspeed’s MOSFETs also enabled higher frequency operation, reduced harmonic distortion, improved thermal management, and smaller overall system size.”

“Our objective was to design the simplest totem-pole PFC topology using our latest generation of 900V SiC MOSFETs, combined with low cost silicon diodes, that could achieve 80+ Titanium system efficiency levels,” said Guy Moxey, Wolfspeed’s senior director of power products.

“Moreover, we set the additional requirements that the design would use only established and proven commercially-available wide bandgap devices in full production, be the most practical circuit to implement and commercialize, as well as be smaller in volume than existing silicon-based systems at the lower 80+ Platinum efficiency level. And finally, the overall system bill-of-materials (BOM) cost had to be comparable or less than silicon.”

The resulting reference design was presented in a webinar entitled ‘Achieving High Efficiency Power Supplies (80+Titanium) Without Increasing Complexity or Cost’ presented by Wolfspeed engineers Adam Barkley and Edgar Ayerbe.

The overall power consumption for datacentres is estimated to be more than 70 billion kWh annually in the US. High-efficiency power supply designs like those employing Wolfspeed’s SiC MOSFETs are vital for datacentre designers as they strive to meet demanding efficiency standards without increasing costs.

According to a 2016 US Department of Energy supported study1 on US datacentre energy usage, efficiency improvements in datacentre power systems have contributed to an estimated 620 billion kWh in energy savings from 2010 to 2020.

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