SNAS264D April 2006 – February 2024 LM94
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In order to compensate for the errors introduced by non-ideality, the temperature sensor is calibrated for a particular processor. Texas Instruments' temperature sensors are always calibrated to the typical non-ideality and series resistance of a given processor type. The LM94 is calibrated for two non-ideality factors and series resistance values thus supporting the MMBT3904 transistor and the Pentium D processor on 65nm process without the requirement for additional trims. For most accurate measurements TruTherm mode should be turned on when measuring the Pentium D processor on the 65nm process the error introduced by the false non-ideality spread (see Section 7.2.1.1.1). When a temperature sensor calibrated for a particular processor type is used with a different processor type, additional errors are introduced.
Temperature errors associated with non-ideality of different processor types may be reduced in a specific temperature range of concern through use of software calibration. Typical non-ideality specification differences cause a gain variation of the transfer function, therefore the center of the temperature range of interest should be the target temperature for calibration purposes. The following equation can be used to calculate the temperature correction factor (TCF) required to compensate for a target non-ideality differing from that supported by the LM94.
where
The correction factor of Equation 20 should be directly added to the temperature reading produced by the LM94. For example when using the LM94, with the 3904 mode selected, to measure a AMD Athlon processor, with a typical non-ideality of 1.008, for a temperature range of 60 °C to 100 °C the correction factor would calculate to:
Therefore, 1.75°C should be subtracted from the temperature readings of the LM94 to compensate for the differing typical non-ideality target.