This paper presents a novel design for a reconfigurable CDC as a multiplexed sensor fusion that converts three analog signals into digital output bits with different resolutions. The proposed reconfigurable CDC design uses the SAR technique that introduces a small chip area and low power consumption. The proposed novel CDC introduces reconfigurability by using a switching capacitive DAC that solves the problem of converting more than one analog signal with a single converter to a different number of output bits, giving better performance than previous designs. In this paper, three analog signals are used (as a case study) in a weather station to be converted. These signals are temperature, pressure, and humidity that are sensed using the BME-280 Bosch sensor. All CDC specifications are measured for each reconfigured number of output bits. The used supply voltage is 1.0 V, and the sampling frequency is 100 kHz. The 12-bit resolution consumes 2.54 µW, ENOB is 11.47 bits, and SNR equals 73.4 dB. The 8-bit resolution consumes 1.7 µW, ENOB is 7.39 bits, and SNR equals 46.24 dB. The 4-bit resolution consumes 0.68 µW, ENOB is 3.58 bits, and SNR equals 23.45 dB. The total chip area is 0.18 mm2.
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