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On 9/9/2024 2:44 PM, piglet wrote:
> On 09/09/2024 6:28 pm, bitrex wrote:
>> Looks promising, with a midband gain of about 0.97.
>>
>> Use a PNP/JFET cascode as the slower input (as I guess sub-GHz PNPs is 
>> all we have, now) and fast NPNs on the output.
>>
>> It's definitely not expensive, anyway:
>>
>> <https://imgur.com/a/MTh2kl7>
>>

> What does the JFET get you that an NPN BJT in that position wouldn't do?
> 
> piglet
> 

An NPN there seems to cause some appreciable peaking around the HF 
cutoff, though I haven't dug into this topology far enough to understand 
exactly why..