Patent ID: 7315271

Claim:
An analog-to-digital converter for converting a signal to be digitized into a digitized signal, comprising: a plurality of comparators, each of which has a first and a second input, and an output, wherein the output can be used to provide the digitized signal; and an impedance network for each comparator, wherein each impedance network is connected between at least one input on the associated comparator and the signal to be digitized and wherein each impedance network is connected between the associated comparator and a first electrical reference potential, and wherein at least some of the impedance networks have a first nonreactive resistor and a second nonreactive resistor, the first nonreactive resistor being connected between the first input and the second input of at least some of the comparators, and the second nonreactive resistor being connected between the first input of at least some of the comparators and the signal to be digitized; wherein the impedance networks are configured such that the comparators are brought essentially to the same operating point.