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 13521Have 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 12360For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation?
2352Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.
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what is multiplexer?
What are the different measures that are required to achieve the design for better yield?
If not into production, how far did you follow the design and why did not you see it into production?
What types of CMOS memories have you designed? What were their size? Speed?
What transistor level design tools are you proficient with? What types of designs were they used on?
Explain the three regions of operation of a mosfet.
Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.
Explain Process technology? What package was used and how did you model the package/system? What parasitic effects were considered?
Draw the SRAM Write Circuitry
What is the difference between nmos and pmos technologies?
Explain how binary number can give a signal or convert into a digital signal?
What was your role in the silicon evaluation or product ramp? What tools did you use?
Draw the Cross Section of an Inverter? Clearly show all the connections between M1 and poly, M1 and diffusion layers etc?
Explain what is slack?
Explain what is the use of defpararm?