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 13827Have 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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Insights of a 4bit adder/Sub Circuit?
What are the steps involved in designing an optimal pad ring?
Describe the various effects of scaling?
Draw Vds-Ids curve for a MOSFET. Now, show how this curve changes with increasing Vgs.
Draw the Differential Sense Amplifier and explain its working. Any idea how to size this circuit? (Consider Channel Length Modulation)
Explain depletion region.
Process technology? What package was used and how did you model the package/system? What parasitic effects were considered?
What is Charge Sharing? Explain the Charge Sharing problem while sampling data from a Bus
What types of high speed CMOS circuits have you designed?
What is Noise Margin? Explain the procedure to determine Noise Margin?
Explain what is slack?
In vlsi chip 1000s of transistors are dropped, specifically categorized. Which method is used to achieve this & how it is done practically?
If an/ap = 0.5, an/ap = 1, an/ap = 3, for 3 inverters draw the transfer characteristics?
Write a VLSI program that implements a toll booth controller?
If not into production, how far did you follow the design and why did not you see it into production?