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Digital temperature sensors have an Internal Integrated circuit that will handle the temperature conversion.
The temperature value is placed in a digital register location. This temperature reading is available and transmitted when the correct command protocol has been used with the relevant addresses and instructions.
protocols include I2C , SPI and OneWire.
Digital temperature sensors can simplify electronic design and sometimes reduce amount of code needed to successfully read the temperature , however they are normally more expensive than passive temperature sensors.