What's All This Platinum Stuff, Anyhow?

June 27, 1994

IC temperature sensors offer a good drift rate. But relatively inexpensive instrument-grade platinum sensors are even more stable and their vendors can provide a full set of calibration documentation traceable to the NIST.

Bob Pease

About the Author

Bob Pease

Bob obtained a BSEE from MIT in 1961 and was a staff scientist at National Semiconductor Corp., Santa Clara, CA, for many years. He was a well known and long time contributing editor to Electronic Design.

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