The overall market for electronics systems operating above 200¸C is expected to increase significantly to more than a billion US $ by 2005. Applications include oil-gas, automotive, aerospace, chemicals industries. Electronics high-temperature applications will generically involve the monitoring of sensor signals, that is analog conditioning and digital processing and memorisation. Circuit components subsequently include sensors, operational amplifiers, filters, analog-digital converters, microprocessors, ROMs, RAMs. Such components operating at 200¸C or more have been presented over the last years, mainly in discrete form. The ultimate goal however is to integrate complete one-chip ASIC solutions for cost, reliability, compacity or power issues.
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