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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

Anybody using the temperature diode on Stratix II's?

On my circuit board I brought out the two pins from the temperature diode so that I could measure the temperature with an external device. I have not been able to get decent readings yet--either tha...
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18 years ago

Yes, I have gotten good readings from the temp sense diode. You will see the MAXIM 1619 on some of the Altera evaluation or dev kits along with 7 segment displays. We have not seen problems -- you can use a thermocouple or temp sensing thermal gun to correlate.