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It was successfully fabricated using the 0.35 \u03bcm CMOS process. According to the chip results in a wide temperature range from \u221220 \u00b0C to 120 \u00b0C, two voltage references can provide temperature-stable outputs of 823 mV and 1,265 mV with maximum deviations of 0.2 mV and 8.9 mV, respectively. The result for the current reference gives a measurement of 23.5 \u00b5A, with a maximum deviation of 1.2 \u00b5A. The measurements also show that the wireless temperature sensor has good sensitivity of 9.55 mV\/\u00b0C and high linearity of 97%. The proposed temperature sensor has 4.15-times better sensitivity than the previous design. Moreover, to facilitate temperature data collection, standard wireless data transmission is chosen; therefore, an 8-bit successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a 433 MHz wireless transmitter are also integrated in this chip. 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