The design of a low-power 10 b, 40 Msamplds ADC integrated in a 0.8 pm multithreshold CMOS process is presented. The h l l y differential design employs parallel-pipelined ADC each Using a combination of single-and multibit-per-stage pipelined archit".The ADC, targeted for high-resolution video terminals and ultrasound SCBnning applications, achieves a nonlinearity-plus-quantizationerror of fl LSB at 10 b, dissipates 85 mW from a single 2 7 V supply, and occupies an area of 1.9 m m by 2.1 mm.