High-resolution synthesizable digitally-controlled delay lines

R Giordano, F Ameli, P Bifulco, V Bocci… - … on Nuclear Science, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digitally-controlled delay lines (DCDLs) play a key role in timing distribution for trigger and
data acquisition systems (TDAQ) of high energy Physics (HEP), where it is often necessary …

A high-accuracy, high-resolution, and low-cost all-digital temperature sensor using a voltage compensation ring oscillator

YL Lo, YT Chiu - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an all-digital temperature sensor (ADTS) with a ring oscillator for
achieving the following goals: high accuracy; high resolution; low power-supply sensitivity; …

On-chip smart temperature sensors for dark current compensation in CMOS image sensors

S Xie, AJP Theuwissen - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes various types of on-chip smart temperature sensors, intended for
thermal compensation of dark current in CMOS image sensors (CIS). It proposes four …

Delay-line temperature sensors and VLSI thermal management demonstrated on a 60nm FPGA

S Xie, WT Ng - 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a thermal sensing and VLSI thermal management scheme using an
array of on-chip all-digital delay-line based temperature sensors. A fully digital self …

An all-digital time-domain smart temperature sensor with a cost-efficient curvature correction

CC Chen, CL Chen, Y Lin… - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an all-digital time-domain smart temperature sensor (TDSTS) with a
cost-efficient curvature correction, which can effectively improve the accuracy and cost …

All-digital thermal distribution measurement on field programmable gate array using ring oscillators

Y Yue, SW Feng, CS Guo, X Yan, RR Feng - Microelectronics Reliability, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, a digital method for transient temperature distribution measurement of field
programmable gate array (FPGA)-based systems is proposed. The smart thermal sensors …

Analysis and calibration of process variations for an array of temperature sensors

S Xie, A Abarca, J Markenhof, X Ge… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an analysis and calibration of process variations for an array of
temperature sensors, which are incorporated into a CMOS image sensor chip. Making use of …

Temperature sensors incorporated into a CMOS image sensor with column zoom ADCs

S Xie, X Ge, A Theuwissen - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an array of nMOS based temperature sensors incorporated into a
CMOS image sensor (CIS) for thermal compensation of the latter. Each temperature sensor …

A low power temperature to frequency converter for the on-chip temperature measurement

SS Chouhan, K Halonen - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we are proposing a simple energy efficient on-chip temperature to frequency
converter circuit. The proposed arrangement senses the temperature in terms of the …

An all-digital self-calibrated delay-line based temperature sensor for VLSI thermal sensing and management

S Xie, WT Ng - Integration, the VLSI Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a low power self-calibrated delay-line based temperature sensor
intended for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) thermal management applications. It …