Methods and apparatuses to measure temperatures of integrated circuits are
disclosed. New circuit arrangements for measuring temperature using
various types of integrated circuit sensor elements are discussed.
Embodiments comprise methods and apparatuses arranged to measure
temperature based upon current leakage rates of different integrated
circuit sensor elements. The methods and apparatuses generally involve
using a pulse module to generate a charge for the integrated circuit
elements. In these method and apparatus embodiments, one or more elements
form a decay module to sense when the voltage decays to a threshold
value. The method and apparatus embodiments may also have a module to
calculate or infer a temperature from the rate of the voltage decay.