a second feedback current can be applied to input terminals of the common gate amplifier if the common mode current is greater than the predetermined threshold application_number US 201113149376 A description refer now to the drawings wherein depicted elements are for the sake of clarity not necessarily shown to scale and wherein like or similar elements are designated by the same reference numeral through the several views turning to fig1 an example of a class c amplifier 100 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can be seen in operation the output circuit 104 is able to u201c split u201d and distribute the common mode feedback to differential ground or to nodes with higher frequency differential poles generally the input circuit 102 which can for example be a downconversion mixer draws or provides a common mode current that is dependant on its input swing this common mode current is drawn or provided through terminals in which are coupled to the inputs of the common gate or common base amplifier 110 namely these terminals in are coupled to the sources or emitters of transistors q 4 and q 5 which can for example be nmos or npn transistors each of these transistors q 4 and q 5 is coupled to a resistor network i e resistors r 1 through r 6 that operate as a differential load resistor which can for example.