An NPN-based temperature sensor with digital output has been realized in a 65-nm CMOS
process. It achieves a batch-calibrated inaccuracy of (3σ) and a trimmed inaccuracy of (3σ) …

This book discusses new techniques for detecting, controlling, and exploiting the impacts of
temperature variations on nanoscale circuits and systems. A new sensor system is …

Nearly all integrated circuits contain power and thermal management circuits. These two
functions are intimately connected and help improve the power performance of the system …

Compact thermal sensors (<; 0.02 mm 2) are important for measuring thermal gradients in
microprocessors and can directly affect the processors performance and power …

This paper presents compact and voltage-scalable temperature sensor circuits for
implementing dynamic thermal management (DTM) in high-performance microprocessors …

An array of temperature sensors based on the thermal diffusivity (TD) of bulk silicon has
been realized in a standard 40-nm CMOS process. In each TD sensor, a highly digital …

Time domain complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) temperature sensors
estimate the temperature of a sensory device by measuring the frequency, period and/or …

This work presents a thermal diffusivity (TD) sensor realized in nanometer (40nm) CMOS
that demonstrates that the performance of such sensors continues to improve with scaling …

This brief presents a highly supply voltage-scalable, ultra-low-power, all-digital CMOS
temperature sensor for onchip thermal monitoring. The proposed all-digital temperature …

This paper describes a precision temperature sensor based on dynamic threshold MOS
(DTMOS) transistors. By using the DTMOS configuration, ie by connecting the body of a …