Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide sampling networks that avoid
undesired transient voltages. One example provides a sampling network
that includes a switch such that charge is transferred to an integrator
in two separate steps instead of one. This switch connects the first side
of a capacitor to an intermediate voltage after it is connected to an
input voltage and before it is connected to a reference voltage, where
the reference voltage is the output of a one-bit digital-to-analog
converter. This intermediate switching allows charge to be transferred
from a sampling capacitor to an integrating capacitor in two steps, thus
avoiding undesirable transient voltages.