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MIC281
Low-Cost IttyBitty™ Thermal Sensor
General Description
The MIC281 is a digital thermal sensor capable of measuring the temperature of a remote PN junction. It is optimized for applications favoring low cost and small size. The remote junction may be an inexpensive commodity transistor, e.g., 2N3906, or an embedded thermal diode such as found in Intel Pentium® II/III/IV CPUs, AMD Athlon® CPUs, and Xilinx Virtex® FPGAs.
The MIC281 is 100% software and hardware backward compatible with the MIC280 and features the same industry-leading noise performance and small size. The advanced integrating A/D converter and analog front-end reduce errors due to noise for maximum accuracy and minimum guardbanding.
A 2-wire SMBus 2.0-compatible serial interface is provided for host communication.