>    "The concept is similar to a darlington, which
>     uses like transistors to emulate one high gain
>     transistor."
>
> The 'cascode' configuration has other goals like
> improved bandwidth and lower noise figure as contrasted
> to simply increasing the gain, verily, voltage (and even
> current) gain in a cascode configuration is _lower_
> than other configurations ...

Yes, I was apparently confusing the terms "pseudo darlington" with
"cascode".


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