A fully-integrated 71 nW CMOS temperature sensor for low power wireless sensor nodes

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1682-1693

  Jeong, Seokhyeon ^a   Foo, Zhiyoong ^a   Lee, Yoonmyung ^a   Sim, Jae Yoon ^b   Blaauw, David ^a   Sylvester, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fully integrated; subthreshold; temperature sensor; ultra low power; wireless sensor node

Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DIGITAL TEMPERATURE; FULLY INTEGRATED; SUBTHRESHOLD; TEMPERATURE INDEPENDENTS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84905108010     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2325574     Document Type: Article

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