The LM95241 is a precision dual remote diode temperature
sensor (RDTS) that uses National’s TruTherm technology.
The 2-wire serial interface of the LM95241 is compatible with
SMBus 2.0. The LM95241 can sense three temperature
zones, it can measure the temperature of its own die as well
as two diode connected transistors. The LM95241 includes
digital filtering and an advanced input stage that includes
analog filtering and TruTherm technology that reduces
processor-to-processor non-ideality spread. The diode connected
transistors can be a “thermal diode” as found in Intel
and AMD processors or can simply be a diode connected
MMBT3904 transistor. TruTherm technology allows accurate
measurement of “thermal diodes” found on small geometry
processes such as 90nm and 65nm. The LM95241 supports
user selectable thermal diode non-ideality of either Intel
processor on 90nm or 65nm process or 2N3904.