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Why does a distributed amplifier avoid the cascading penalty?

  • A.Its stages add their outputs along a transmission line
  • B.Its stages are coupled directly rather than through capacitors
  • C.Its stages each take unity gain and so have no roll-off
  • D.Its stages share one collector load resistor between them

Answer: A

A distributed amplifier sums its stages' currents into a common output line rather than passing the signal through each in turn, so the gains add while the roll-offs do not compound. Direct coupling, unity gain and a shared load do not describe it. Changing a cascade into a parallel summation is what escapes the compounding, and it is the standard arrangement wherever very wide bandwidths are needed at the cost of considerable complexity.

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