Compact and Supply-Voltage-Scalable Temperature Sensors for Dense On-Chip Thermal Monitoring

This paper presents compact and voltage-scalable temperature sensor circuits for implementing dynamic thermal management (DTM) in high-performance microprocessors and Systems-on-Chips (SoC). The proposed sensor front ends require only 6 to 8 NMOS transistors, resulting in more than one order of magnitude smaller area than the previous state of the art. The sensor supply voltage can be scaled down ...