D/A converter having capacitances, tone voltage lines, first switches, second switches and third switches

摘要

Provided is a D/A converter circuit which copes with high-bit digital signals and has favorable linearity and small occupation area. In a capacitive divider type DAC, capacitances are simply provided in a one-to-one relationship correspondingly to lower order bit digital signals instead of providing capacitances one-to-one correspondingly to bits. In a reset period, voltages having a height corresponding to higher order bit digital signals are provided to one electrodes (first electrodes) of the capacitances thereby charging the capacitances. In a write period, voltages having a height corresponding to lower order bit digital signals are provided to the other electrodes (second electrodes) of the capacitances thereby charging the capacitances.