Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compact supply independent temperature sensor
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Application No.: US15796048Application Date: 2017-10-27
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Publication No.: US10547273B2Publication Date: 2020-01-28
- Inventor: Ravinder Reddy Rachala , Stephen V. Kosonocky
- Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Zagorin Cave LLP
- Main IPC: G01K7/01
- IPC: G01K7/01 ; H03K3/03 ; H03B5/04

Abstract:
A temperature sensor has a first transistor with a gate voltage tied to maintain the first transistor in an off state with leakage current flowing through the transistor, the leakage current varying with temperature. A second transistor is coupled to the first transistor and receives a gate voltage to keep the second transistor in an on state. A current mirror mirrors the leakage current and supplies a mirrored current used to control a frequency of an oscillator signal varies with the mirrored current. The temperature of the first transistor is determined based the frequency of the oscillator signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190131928A1 COMPACT SUPPLY INDEPENDENT TEMPERATURE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
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