Controlling operation of temperature sensors

A computer readable storage medium comprising a data structure which is operated upon by a program executable on a computer system, the program operating on the data structure to perform a portion of a process to fabricate an integrated circuit including circuitry described by the data structure, the circuitry described in the data structure including:

• a sensor controller configured to receive, from a temperature sensor, a first temperature of the integrated circuit and a subsequent, second temperature of the integrated circuit;
• and
• wherein the sensor controller is configured to reduce power consumption of the temperature sensor based, at least in part, on a decrease in temperature indicated by the second temperature being less than the first temperature, and wherein the sensor controller is configured to reduce the power consumption of the temperature sensor without varying power consumption of at least a portion of the integrated circuit, wherein the integrated circuit is configured to reduce the power consumption of the temperature sensor by disabling the temperature sensor for an interval selected based on the second temperature.