My thoughts were re-kindled by wondering if a Microchip TC4428 mosfet gate driver (think giant cmos inverter) would make a good output amplifier for a pulse generator, but thinking that adding ...

They use transistors. Sure, these transistors are operated at their conduction extremes (which is why they are called “digital”), but during the logic state transition they're pure analog. By adding a ...

Figure 1 Analog switches provide dynamic pull-up and pull-down at the output of this pulse generator to ensure fast rise and fall times.. The input clock signal, F 1, controls an SPDT analog switch, ...