Temperature sensors and measurements to test analogue circuits: questions and answers

We have been working in the field of temperature sensors and temperature measurements to test analogue circuits during the past 10 years. As we have presented different works in many conferences, we have collected many interesting questions, some of them collected more than once!. Here you have some of them. Our goal in this paper is to introduce temperature measurements and temperature sensors to test analog circuits from the highest level of abstraction. This paper has been written with the goal to provide basic understanding and present some of the possibilities of temperature sensors and measurements to test integrated circuits in general, analog in particular.

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