A VCO Based Highly Digital Temperature Sensor With 0.034°C/mV Supply Sensitivity

A self-referenced VCO-based temperature sensor with reduced supply sensitivity is presented. The proposed sensor converts temperature information to frequency and then into digital bits. A novel sensing technique is proposed in which temperature information is acquired by evaluating the ratio of the output frequencies of two ring oscillators,...

Transistors under stress: Mechanical stress affects amplification

Practically every modern Intel Pentium processor main board features a temperature sensor developed at Delft University of Technology. The sensor detects when the processor starts to become too hot, and switches on a fan to cool it down. As soon as the temperature drops to an acceptable level, the fan is switched off. The temperature sensor was...