摘要 |
<p>The invention provides a method and apparatus for generating a precise and stable voltage at a high speed. More specifically, there is provided a D/A converter constructed using capacitors having capacitance values which are properly deviated from binary-weighted (2n) capacitance values. This D/A converter has the feature that even if the ratios among a plurality of actual capacitances having weighted values are different from the designed values to an extreme degree, the capacitance value of the jth capacitor is always greater than the sum of the capacitance values of the first through (j-1)th capacitors. This ensures that an unwanted reverse change in the output signal of the D/A converter is prevented from occurring. Furthermore, this technique of the invention can be accomplished without having to use an additional circuit such as a compensation circuit, and therefore this technique is easy and inexpensive.</p> |