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LM91 Diode Input Digital Temperature Sensor with Two-Wire Interface
November 2001
LM91
Diode Input Digital Temperature Sensor with Two-Wire
Interface
General Description
The LM91 is a remote diode temperature sensor, Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converter, and digital over-temperature detector with an SMBus™ interface. The LM91 senses its own temperature as well as the temperature of a target IC with a diode junction, such as a Pentium® II processor or a diode connected 2N3904. A diode junction (semiconductor junction) is required on the target IC’s die. A host can query the LM91 at any time to read the temperature of this diode as well as the temperature state of the LM91 itself.