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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Infineon Technologies Ag, Neubiberg, DE;
Inventors:
Maximilian Hofer, Hartberg, AT;
Christoph Boehm, Graz, AT;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 7/00 (2006.01); G01K 7/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 7/01 (2013.01); G01K 2217/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a temperature sensing circuit is described comprising a multiplicity of transistor circuits having a multiplicity of different temperature characteristics and a circuit configured to determine a plurality of mismatch values comprising, for each transistor circuit, a mismatch value representing the temperature characteristic of the transistor circuit and to determine a temperature value using the determined plurality of mismatch values.