Un-Answered Questions { VLSI }

What is Noise Margin? Explain the procedure to determine Noise Margin?

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What is Body Effect?

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Explain the Charge Sharing problem while sampling data from a Bus?

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What happens if we use an Inverter instead of the Differential Sense Amplifier?

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What is the critical path in a SRAM?

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In a SRAM layout, which metal layers would you prefer for Word Lines and Bit Lines? Why?

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What are the ways to Optimize the Performance of a Difference Amplifier?

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What's the price in 1K quantity?

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For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation?

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What are the main issues associated with multiprocessor caches and how might you solve them?

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Are you familiar with the term MESI?

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Are you familiar with the term snooping?

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Describe a finite state machine that will detect three consecutive coin tosses (of one coin) that results in heads.

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You have a driver that drives a long signal & connects to an input device. At the input device there is either overshoot, undershoot or signal threshold violations, what can be done to correct this problem?

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What types of CMOS memories have you designed? What were their size? Speed?

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