
An app note about heat management, including an overview of some cool thermocouple-reading ICs:
This product guide showcases Maxim’s industry-leading portfolio of thermal-management devices, which includes temperature sensors and switches, fan controllers, and a highly accurate thermocouple-to-digital converter. Learn how to select the right fan controller and improve designs using multichannel temperature sensors.
Thanks rsdio!

Nice product brochure. It is up to date too. The MAX31855 shown above in this post is a cutting edge cold junction compensated thermocouple to digital converter that Maxim just released at the end of last June. See this post:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/04/23/max31855-cold-junction-compensated-thermocouple-to-digital-converter/