Ring oscillators as thermal sensors in FPGAS: Experiments in low voltage

6th Southern Programmable Logic Conference, SPL 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 133-137

  Franco, John J León ^a   Boemo, Eduardo ^a   Castillo, Encarnación ^b   Parrilla, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY-TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; LOW VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE; NONLINEAR EFFECT; QUADRATIC POLYNOMIAL; RING OSCILLATOR; SENSOR RESPONSE; THERMAL SENSORS; VOLTAGE VARIATION;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

SENSORS;

EID: 77954444246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPL.2010.5483027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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