An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system that converts an analog input
signal into a digital output circuit includes a first stage
analog-to-digital converter circuit coupled with a second stage
analog-to-digital converter circuit. The first stage analog-to-digital
converter circuit includes a quantizer, comparator, integrator, and a
feedback digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The second stage
analog-to-digital converter circuit includes a backend ADC that further
quantizes the integrator output. Furthermore, the first stage
analog-to-digital converter circuit also includes redundancy that
corrects comparator offsets and prevents nonlinearities and harmonic
distortion in the second stage analog-to-digital converter circuit caused
by uncorrected comparator offsets.