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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com
by
dropt
on 21/07/2014, 00:04:00 UTC
So you are saying the "Temperature" column here is coming from a circuit on the die, not an LM75 component on the board?

It is not either an LM75 ic OR a circuit on the die because it is BOTH of those things. The LM75A (if that's what's installed) is "a temperature-to-digital converter using an on-chip band gap temperature sensor"

"On-chip" in this sense generally implies the sensor is included in the IC package, not that it's reading an external sensor (read: on the SHA256 ASIC Die).

Further, the datasheet doesn't show any inputs for an external sensor.  Thus, it is likely that it is reading the PCB/ambient around the place where it's mounted, not the ASIC chips core temperature.