as a cable driver that provides substantially reduced power consumption and improved orl as well as other advantages as discussed below the invention 39 s voltage mode push pull output stage also provides an integrated output termination such as a 75 ohm output termination fig1 shows a circuit diagram of voltage mode push pull output stage 100 hereinafter referred to simply as u201c output stage 100 u201d in the patent application according to one embodiment of the invention output stage 100 can be an output stage for a driver such as a cable driver and can be driven by a pre driver not shown in fig1 output stage 100 has a programmable output impedance which can be for example 75 ohms in one embodiment the output impedance of output stage 100 can be 50 ohms output stage 100 is coupled between voltage regulator 102 and ground and includes transistors p 1 and p 2 which can be for example p channel field effect transistors pfets transistors n 1 and n 2 which can be for example n channel fets nfets and resistors r 1 r 2 r 3 and r 4 output stage 100 can be configured to receive input 104 and provide an output at output pad 106 input 104 can be a dc voltage that can switch between 0 0 volts and a regulated voltage vreg at a high frequency input 104 can have a data rate of for example between 100 megabits per second mb s and 3 gigabits per second gb s as shown in fig1 input 104 is coupled to the gates of p 1 and n 1 the source of p 1 is coupled to voltage regulator 102 and the drain of transistor p 1.