Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ring oscillators for temperature detection in wideband supply noise environments
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Application No.: US14867734Application Date: 2015-09-28
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Publication No.: US10234336B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Bhavin Odedara , Jayanth Mysore Thimmaiah
- Applicant: SanDisk Technologies Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agency: Brinks, Gilson & Lione
- Priority: IN4097/CHE/2015 20150806
- Main IPC: G01K7/24
- IPC: G01K7/24 ; G01K7/32 ; H03K3/03

Abstract:
A temperature identification system may include temperature sensing circuitry and a temperature measurement module. The temperature sensing circuitry may include a ring oscillator that generates a ring oscillator output signal having a frequency that varies depending on an operating temperature on the ring oscillator. A frequency divider circuit may divide the frequency of the ring oscillator output signal such that two or more cycles of a noise component of supply voltage are averaged, which may reduce the impact that the noise has on the frequency of the ring oscillator output signal. In some embodiments, a regulator may supply a regulated voltage to the ring oscillator. The regulator may reduce the impact of the noise for low frequency components of the noise, while the frequency divider may reduce the impact for high frequency of the noise.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170038264A1 RING OSCILLATORS FOR TEMPERATURE DETECTION IN WIDEBAND SUPPLY NOISE ENVIRONMENTS Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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