A Digital Calibration System for Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog Digital Converters (ADC)

Provides automated digital calibration to compensate for capacitor mismatch and linearity errors, improving conversion accuracy while reducing calibration complexity and manual intervention.
SAR-ADC performance may be affected by capacitor mismatch and linearity errors, resulting in inaccurate data conversion and reduced overall measurement and signal-processing performance.
Provides a digital SAR-ADC calibration mechanism that uses comparator-output counting, majority-decision logic, state control and tunable-capacitor adjustment to correct capacitor-related linearity errors and improve data-conversion accuracy.
Introduces a digital calibration mechanism combining comparator-output counting, majority-decision logic, state control and tunable-capacitor adjustment to compensate for capacitor mismatch and improve SAR-ADC linearity.

