ndnger
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Hey Kidman,
You haven't taken care of the DC biasing of your circuit. When you use an ideal current source on top of the NMOS, it forces the NMOS current to equal the DC current at all input levels. Hence for low values of Vin, your Vout shoots up to 20 V !! The device is operating in subthreshold region with a large Vds to support the ideal current bias value. Your design has a gain of 30 under ideal DC current bias for a particular value of Vgs and Vds ~ 0.2V.
When you use the PMOS load, you get the inverter like characteristics and Vout Vs Vin is not the same as what you got with ideal current bias. ro is a function of Vds and when your amplifier is in high gain region Vds is > 0.2V and hence ro is large now. What you need to do your design with a PMOS load as it affects your DC characteristics and also gain and BW.
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