At 03:35 PM 5/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Mike <erazmus@WANTREE.COM.AU> wrote:
>>Anyone have much experience using ordinary 4cent diodes as temperature
>>sensors ?
>
>   I believe that Linear Technologies has an app note on this.  If
>   memory serves, their circuit does not require calibration.  They
>   drive the circuit with a square wave and measure delta Vbe which
>   has well defined temperature properties.

Analog Devices recommends use of diodes as temperature compensators for
certain micromachined strain guages (I think the new ADXL250??).

Andy

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