A full-flash A/D converter, including a differential amplifier circuit row
and a voltage comparison circuit row, has an adjusting circuit 107 for
making the output dynamic range of differential amplifier circuits
accurately fall within the input dynamic range of voltage comparison
circuits. The adjusting circuit 107 includes a reference voltage
generation circuit 119, which has therein voltage generation circuits 122
whose resistors are connected in series. By this series connection, the
area of the voltage generation circuits 122 is reduced, while the output
dynamic range of the differential amplifier circuits A1 to Am+1 in the
differential amplifier circuit row 102 accurately falls within the input
dynamic range of the voltage comparison circuits Cr1 to Crm+1 in the
voltage comparison circuit row 103. Furthermore, half-circuits in the
voltage generation circuits 122 are used to generate reference voltages,
whereby the area of the voltage generation circuits is reduced further.