system - on - chip products using high frequency , wideband , highly linear , cmos and bicmos processes will be the next evolution of wireless and wireline communications integrated circuits . aspects described herein can provide enhanced overall performance over existing prior art single - ended , wideband rf amplifier topologies . a single - ended third order intermodulation distortion nulling circuit can extend the dynamic range for wideband amplifiers up to an order - of - magnitude , without a dc power or noise figure penalty . the application of distortion nulling can be extended to all the building blocks used in cmos / bicmos rf transceivers to improve performance . the application of this concept to all of the building blocks in an rf transceiver will allow the dynamic range of the transceiver to be increased without suffering a dc power dissipation increase or a significant noise increase .