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In order to achieve high gain, the differential cascode topology can be used. Figure below shows the single ended output configuration of cascode opamp.

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Further, Figure below shows the differential output configurations of cascode opamp topology respectively.

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These configurations are also called as the telescopic cascode op-amps. The voltage gain of these circuits can be given as,

An = – gm1, 2 [(gm3, 4 × ro1, 2 × ro3, 4) || (gm5, 6 × ro5, 6 × ro7, 8)]

* The drawback to telescopic topology is that the output swings are relatively limited.

The output swing is given by,

Swing = 2 [VDD - (VOD1 + VOD3 + V CSS + | VOD5 | + | VOD7 |)]

other drawback of telescopic cascode is the difficulty in shorting their inputs and outputs