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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2014
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Takahiko Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Gopinath Balakrishnan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Minato-ku, JP;
SanDisk Technologies LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a temperature sensor includes: a voltage generating part generating (2−1)-midpoint voltages (N is a natural number equal to or larger than 2) based on a reference voltage which does not depend on a temperature; a sense part generating a temperature sensing voltage which depends on the temperature; and an arithmetic part is configured to generate N-bit temperature data by executing first to N-th operations each comparing the temperature sensing voltage with one of the (2−1)-midpoint voltages.