Suppose you have a combinational circuit between two registers driven by a clock. What will you do if the delay of the combinational circuit is greater than your clock signal? (You can't resize the combinational circuit transistors)
6 13829Have you studied pipelining? List the 5 stages of a 5 stage pipeline. Assuming 1 clock per stage, what is the latency of an instruction in a 5 stage machine? What is the throughput of this machine ?
3 12515For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation?
2401Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.
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For an AND-OR implementation of a two input Mux, how do you test for Stuck-At-0 and Stuck-At-1 faults at the internal nodes? (You can expect a circuit with some redundant logic)
What is threshold voltage?
If the current through the poly is 20nA and the contact can take a max current of 10nA how would u overcome the problem?
what is multiplexer?
Draw the timing diagram for a SRAM Read. What happens if we delay the enabling of Clock signal?
Explain how binary number can give a signal or convert into a digital signal?
What are the Advantages and disadvantages of Mealy and Moore?
Draw the stick diagram of a NOR gate. Optimize it
What are the different ways in which antenna violation can be prevented?
Explain Cross section of an NMOS transistor?
Why do we gradually increase the size of inverters in buffer design? Why not give the output of a circuit to one large inverter?
What is the ideal input and output resistance of a current source?
what is a sequential circuit?
Write a program to explain the comparator?
Explain what is the use of defpararm?