Modern system design increasingly makes use of high speed ICs as circuit building blocks. With bandwidths going up and up, demands are placed on the designer for faster and more power efficient circuits. The default high speed amplifier has changed over the years, with high speed complementary bipolar (CB) process ICs such as the AD846 and AD847 in use just about ten years at this writing. During this time, the general utility/availability of these and other ICs have raised the “high speed” common performance denominator to 50MHz. The most recent extended frequency complementary bipolar (XFCB) process high speed devices such as the AD8001/AD8002, the AD9631/9632 and the AD8036/AD8037 now extend the operating range into the UHF region.