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Analog to digital converters is one of the main building blocks of today's circuits. These circuits play an important role in signal processing. Since these circuits consist of analog and digital sections, a large percentage of the power consumed in a circuit is allocated to this section. Therefore, in applications such as medical devices, wearable applications and wireless technology where power control is very important and necessary, reducing the power of analog to digital converters is very important. One of the simplest analog-to-digital converters from the design point of view is Successive Approximation Register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters. This type of analog-to-digital... 

Low power and high speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are the key elements of communication and computing systems. There are several ADC structures such as delta-sigma, flash, pipeline, and successive approximation register (SAR) for different applications, albeit SAR ADCs are natural candidates of onchip designs for their low power and scalability benefits. Nowadays, SAR ADCs are widely being used in low-power moderate-resolution applications which need several tens of MS/s to low GS/s sampling rates. By virtue of the technology scaling power consumption of digital parts of a SAR ADC is reduced significantly. As a result, in a SAR ADC the power consumption of the digital-to-analog...