The present invention relates to a method and system for reducing integral
non linearity errors in a pipeline Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). The
invention provides in a first embodiment a method comprising the steps
of: adding an analog dither signal to the analog input signal of a
pipeline Analog to Digital Converter, and converting the analog input
signal to a digital output signal by means of the pipeline Analog to
Digital Converter. The amplitude of the analog dither signal is
determined by the architecture of the Analog to Digital Converter. The
invention also provides in a second embodiment a circuit comprising a
pipeline analog to digital converter for converting an analog input
signal to a digital output signal and a feedback circuit coupled to the
converter such that the digital output signal is adapted to have an
average non linearity error value of about zero LSBs.