The following patent hints that the LTC6957 front end probably consists of several cascaded long tailed pair differential amplifier stages each with a selectable bandwidth set by capacitors shunting the collector load resistors. : US8319551 The input limiter is in effect a Collins style limiter with selectable bandwidth for each stage to reduce the noise with respect to a comparator which typically has several high gain wide bandwidth cascaded differential amplifier stages.
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