Quick: What’s the forward voltage drop on a conducting diode? If you answered something like 0.6 to 0.7 V, you get a passing grade, but you’re going to have to read on. If you answered where T 0 and k ...

Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on only 113 picowatts of power -- 628 times lower power than the state of the art and about ...

Using an innovative architecture implemented on a standard CMOS process, a sensor plus ADC dissipates just 113 picowatts. The challenge facing designers trying to incorporate temperature sensing into ...