Patent ID: 8258992

Claim:
An analog-to-digital converter comprising: a digital-to-analog converter that outputs a plurality of different reference analog signals according to a multibit digital signal; a plurality of comparators that compare an input analog signal with the plurality of reference analog signals; and a sequential comparison control circuit that changes bit values of the multibit digital signal in order from higher bits so that at least one of the plurality of reference analog signals becomes closer to the input analog signal and decides the bit values of the multibit digital signal in order from higher bits based on the comparison results of the plurality of comparators according to the plurality of changed reference analog signals and at the same time, correcting the decided bit values, wherein the sequential comparison control circuit decides the bit values of the multibit digital signal down to a predetermined bit based on the comparison results of the plurality of comparators and at the same time, correcting the bit values, and decides the bits lower than the predetermined bit based on the comparison result of one of the plurality of comparators.