digitized the digitized signal 353 t digitalreal is then sent both to a dq pin and to a register 354 where its value is stored in a memory 355 thereof the analog to digital converter 352 and the register 354 are run by clock signals sent by a clock 356 that may be a system clock of the memory chip 300 note that one advantage of the present invention is that no additional pins for the memory chip 300 are needed the value t digitalreal of the sensed real time temperature is then sent to a comparator 358 that is connected to the register 354 as shown in fig8 10 the sensed real time temperature t digitalreal is sent from the dq pin to the comparator 358 per a temperature sensing protocol generated by protocol component 365 of the control system 364 by using a temperature sensing protocal the control system 364 will be able to receive the sensed real time temperature via the dq bus one example of a temperature sensing protocol is shown in fig8 in this example an existing command that does not require dq bus activity is used to signal that a temperature sensing protocol is to proceed an example of such a command is a valid command such as the pre charge all pcha command the temperature sensing protocol is engaged when the command is activated at a time when the dq bus has no activity in such a case completion of the command results in temperature data corresponding to the sensed real time temperature t digitalreal being placed on the dq bus after a time u03b4t as measured from the discontinuation of the command the temperature data is then fed to the.