This paper presents a digital foreground calibration method 7 intended for Successive Approximation (SAR) Analog-to-Digital 8 Converters (ADCs). It begins by investigating the Integral Non-9 linearity (INL) and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) degradation with 1 % 10 capacitor mismatches. Later, it compares the INL and SNR for the ADC 11 with and without using the proposed calibration method, and with 12 various levels of capacitor redundancy and mismatches. The MATLAB 13 simulation results show the

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... proposed method can improve the ADCs' 14 INL and SNR by 0.8 LSB and 5.8 dB, on average for 100 runs, 15 respectively, when 1 % capacitor mismatches are present. Measurement 16 results of the 15 column SAR ADCs indicate that the INL and the SNR 17 can be improved by 1 LSB and 2 dB, respectively, using the proposed 18 calibration method.