A fully digital time-domain smart temperature sensor realized with 140 FPGA logic elements

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2661-2668

  Chen, Poki ^a   Shie, Mon Chau ^a   Zheng, Zhi Yuan ^a   Zheng, Zi Fan ^a   Chu, Chun Yan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cyclic delay line; Fully digital design; Low cost; Low power; On chip integration; Smart sensor; Temperature sensor; Time domain

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); SMART SENSORS; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

CYCLIC DELAY; DIGITAL DESIGNS; LOW COSTS; LOW POWER; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; TIME DOMAIN;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 58049115041     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2007.906073     Document Type: Article

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