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Conclusions and Outlook

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Resistor-based Temperature Sensors in CMOS Technology

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This chapter summarises this book. Resistor-based temperature sensors are especially competitive in applications that require both high resolution and high energy-efficiency. Compared to the state-of-the-art in 2016, the work presented in this book improves the energy-efficiency of CMOS temperature sensors is by 65×. This chapter also contains some suggestions for future directions, including a systematic design approach based on sensor accuracy, area- and power- efficient digital backend, background calibration, long-term-stability measurement, application of the tail-resistor-linearized OTA, etc.

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Pan, S., Makinwa, K.A.A. (2022). Conclusions and Outlook. In: Resistor-based Temperature Sensors in CMOS Technology. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95284-6_6

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