A mechanism for discharging parasitic capacitance at an input of an
operational amplifier, which is shared between two stages of a pipelined
analog-to-digital converter and/or two channels of signal processing
circuitry. The operational amplifier contains two input circuits that are
time multiplexed in a manner that allows capacitance to be discharged at
one input circuit while the other input circuit is inputting signals into
the amplifier. The discharging of the parasitic capacitance substantially
mitigates the memory effect and the problems associated with the memory
effect.