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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2005
Robert St. Pierre, Tucson, AZ (US);
Scott C. Mcleod, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Robert St. Pierre, Tucson, AZ (US);
Scott C. McLeod, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Standard Microsystems Corporation, Hauppauge, NY (US);
Abstract
A temperature sensor circuit and system providing accurate digital temperature readings using a local or remote temperature diode. In one set of embodiments a change in diode junction voltage (ΔV) proportional to the temperature of the diode is captured and provided to an analog to digital converter (ADC), which may perform required signal conditioning functions on ΔV, and provide a digital output corresponding to the temperature of the diode. DC components of errors in the measured temperature that may result from EMI noise modulating the junction voltage (V) may be minimized through the use of a front-end sample-and-hold circuit coupled between the diode and the ADC, in combination with a shunt capacitor coupled across the diode junction. The sample-and-hold-circuit may sample Vat a frequency that provides sufficient settling time for each Vsample, and provide corresponding stable ΔVsamples to the ADC at the ADC operating frequency. The ADC may therefore be operated at its preferred sampling frequency rate without incurring reading errors while still averaging out AC components of additional errors induced by sources other than EMI.