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 12575Have 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 11896For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation?
2158Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.
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What are the different design techniques required to create a layout for digital circuits?
Explain how MOSFET works?
Explain the operation of a 6T-SRAM cell?
Approximately, what were the sizes of your transistors in the SRAM cell? How did you arrive at those sizes?
What is the purpose of having depletion mode device?
Draw the stick diagram of a NOR gate. Optimize it
Explain sizing of the inverter?
For CMOS logic, give the various techniques you know to minimize power consumption
What types of I/O have you designed? What were their size? Speed? Configuration? Voltage requirements?
What work have you done on full chip Clock and Power distribution? What process technology and budgets were used?
Describe the various effects of scaling?
If an/ap = 0.5, an/ap = 1, an/ap = 3, for 3 inverters draw the transfer characteristics?
Draw the Cross Section of an Inverter? Clearly show all the connections between M1 and poly, M1 and diffusion layers etc?
Are you familiar with the term snooping?
Explain various adders and difference between them?
