Low-power and robust on-chip thermal sensing using differential ring oscillators

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 29-32

  Datta, Basab ^a   Burleson, Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

ACTIVE POWER; RING OSCILLATORS; THERMAL SENSING;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

EID: 51449115076     PISSN: 15483746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2007.4488534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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