The invention relates to an analog-to-digital converter comprising a
reference voltage generating circuit, two coarse/fine comparators and two
encoders for encoding the comparison result of the two coarse/fine
comparators. In the invention, the two coarse/fine comparators processes
a coarse comparison procedure and a fine comparison procedure on an input
voltage in different clock cycle, thus, a sampling voltage error caused
by an error of sampling time decreases. In another aspect of the
invention, the capacitance of the input capacitor of the
analog-to-digital converter decreases because the comparators for coarse
comparison and fine comparison are the same, thus, a large power
amplifier is not required for driving the input capacitor.