Patent ID: 7140767
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: G01K

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring temperature, the method comprising: adjusting an operating characteristic of an ADC; applying one or more input signals to a device coupled to the ADC, the device having a substantially defined ideality factor and a substantially defined generally non-linear input-output characteristic that varies with temperature, the device producing a sequence of output signals in response to the one or more input signals, wherein each one of the sequence of output signals is generated in response to a respective one of the one or more input signals; generating a numeric value corresponding to a temperature of the device in response to the sequence of output signals; wherein for a specified range of ideality factors, said adjusting results in the numeric value being substantially free of errors introduced by the ideality factor of the device not matching an expected ideality factor of the specified range of ideality factors.