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This system targets high-temperature (HT) applications, especially those involving pressure and temperature sensors for aerospace in which the environmental temperature exceeds 350 \u00b0C. The presented system includes a front-end amplifying the sensed signal (gain of 50 V\/V), followed by a novel analog-to-digital converter driving a modulator exploiting the load-shift keying technique. An oscillation frequency of 1.5 MHz is used to ensure a robust wireless transmission through metallic-based barriers. To retrieve the data, a new demodulator architecture based on digital circuits is proposed. A 1 V amplitude difference can be detected between a high-amplitude (data-on) and a low-amplitude (data-off) of the received modulated signal. Two high-voltage supply levels (+14 V and \u221214 V) are required to operate the circuits. The layout of the proposed system was completed in a chip occupying 10.8 mm2. The HT characterization and modeling of integrated GaN devices and passive components are performed to ensure the reliability of simulation results. 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