Bitstream trimming of a smart temperature sensor

The paper presents a high-resolution trimming technique for use in precision smart temperature sensors. A digital sigma-delta modulator is used to trim the bias current of a bipolar transistor to compensate for process spread. In contrast with conventional trimming techniques, only a small chip area is required. The implementation of this technique in a temperature sensor with a sigma-delta ADC is discussed. On a prototype realized in 0.7 /spl mu/m CMOS, an 8-bit trimming resolution was measured, corresponding to 0.02/spl deg/C on a range of 4.5/spl deg/C.

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