Electrical pulse counters – pulse dividers – or shift registers: c – Applications – Measuring or testing
Patent
1994-10-24
1996-04-30
Heyman, John S.
Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c
Applications
Measuring or testing
374170, 374102, 364557, 377 49, G01K 732
Patent
active
055132359
ABSTRACT:
An integrated circuit temperature detector (thermometer) uses a temperature dependent oscillator to count up to a fixed number and thereby generate a time interval indicative of the temperature (a temperature-to-time converter). The time-to-number converter provides a numeric temperature output. Counting oscillations of a relatively temperature independent oscillator for the time interval may digitize the temperature measurement. Calibration and successive approximation iterations permit simple hardware to achieve good accuracy.
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Douglass James M.
Lee Robert D.
Zanders Gary V.
Dallas Semiconductor Corporation
Heyman John S.
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