A method for converting an analog signal to multiple different phase
outputs with an analog-to-digital converter is provided. First, the
analog signal is converted to a high-frequency datastream with a
delta-sigma modulator. A plurality of low-frequency datastreams are then
generated by periodically extracting the samples of the high-frequency
datastream, wherein consecutively extracted samples of the high-frequency
datastream are scattered to different low-frequency datastreams. The
low-frequency datastreams have the same sampling rate, and the phases of
the corresponding samples of the low-frequency datastreams are different
from each other.