Temperature-to-digital converters' evolution, trends and techniques across the last two decades: A review

A Aprile, E Bonizzoni, P Malcovati - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an extensive review of the main highlights in the Temperature-to-Digital
Converters (TDCs) field, which has gained importance and research interest throughout the …

The design considerations and challenges in MOS-based temperature sensors: A review

S Xie - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review paper categorizes the state-of-the-art MOS (metal oxide semiconductor)-based
temperature sensors according to their thermal sensing principles, including: type I, the …

A BJT-based CMOS temperature sensor with duty-cycle-modulated output and±0.5° C (3σ) inaccuracy from− 40° C to 125° C

Z Huang, Z Tang, XP Yu, Z Shi, L Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents a 0.65% relative inaccuracy CMOS temperature sensor with a duty-cycle-
modulated (DCM) output. It uses a BJT-based front-end to generate a proportional to …

Subranging BJT-Based CMOS Temperature Sensor With a ±0.45 °C Inaccuracy (3σ) From −50 °C to 180 °C and a Resolution-FoM of 7.2 pJ·K² at 150 °C

B Wang, MK Law - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a BJT-based CMOS temperature sensor with a wide sensing range
from− 50° C to 180° C. To effectively relax the sensor resolution requirement and conversion …

A 310 nW temperature sensor achieving 9.8 mK resolution using a DFLL-based readout circuit

A Jain, H Jiang, C Pochet… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief reports a high-performance, low-power temperature sensor suitable for wireless
IoT devices/RFID tags. The system utilizes a mostly digital approach to achieve energy …

A BJT-Based Temperature-to-Frequency Converter With±1° C (3\Σ) Inaccuracy From–40° C to 140° C for On-Chip Thermal Monitoring

JH Park, JH Hwang, C Shin… - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a bipolar junction transistor (BJT)-based CMOS temperature-to-
frequency converter (TFC). A relaxation oscillator (ROSC) consisting of an integrating …

A voltage-scalable low-power all-digital temperature sensor for on-chip thermal monitoring

CY Ku, TT Liu - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A dynamic-biased resistor-based CMOS temperature sensor with a duty-cycle-modulated output

Z Tang, Y Fang, XP Yu, Z Shi, L Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents a resistor-based CMOS temperature sensor with a duty-cycle-modulated
output. A dynamic-biased resistive analog front-end (AFE) is proposed to generate voltages …

A CMOS-imager-pixel-based temperature sensor for dark current compensation

S Xie, AA Prouza, A Theuwissen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief proposes employing each of the classical 4 transistor (4T) pinned photodiode
(PPD) CMOS image sensor (CIS) pixels, for both imaging and temperature measurement …

On low-leakage CMOS switches

B Wang, S Wang, MK Law - 2021 IEEE International Midwest …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuing CMOS process scaling to favor the design of high-performance digital systems
has resulted in many issues for precision analog design, and one of which is the detrimental …