VLSI Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Why is Extraction performed?

Intel,

1 7119

What is LVS, DRC?

IBM, Intel,

10 57576

Who provides the DRC rules?

Intel,

5 10323

What is validation?

Intel,

2 12716

What is Cross Talk?

Intel,

4 10503

Different ways of implementing a comparator?

Intel,

1 5740

What r the phenomenon which come into play when the devices are scaled to the sub-micron lengths?

Intel,

4 6884

What is clock feed through?

Intel,

2 16231

Implement an Inverter using a single transistor?

Intel,

4 11540

What is Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling?

Intel,

2 7078

Insights of a Tri-state inverter?

Intel,

1 4655

If an/ap = 0.5, an/ap = 1, an/ap = 3, for 3 inverters draw the transfer characteristics?

Intel,

2002

Differences between Array and Booth Multipliers?

Intel,

3529

Explain the concept of a Clock Divider Circuit? Write a VHDL code for the same?

Intel,

3 17041

Which gate is normally preferred while implementing circuits using CMOS logic, NAND or NOR? Why?

Intel,

13 33368


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Let A & B be two inputs of the NAND gate. Say signal A arrives at the NAND gate later than signal B. To optimize delay, of the two series NMOS inputs A & B, which one would you place near the output?

859


Draw the stick diagram of a NOR gate. Optimize it

745


Why do we gradually increase the size of inverters in buffer design? Why not give the output of a circuit to one large inverter?

805


What are the different design techniques required to create a layout for digital circuits?

588


Are you familiar with the term snooping?

2913






Explain Cross section of an NMOS transistor?

558


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)

702


what is verilog?

630


Explain the three regions of operation of a mosfet.

616


Give various factors on which threshold voltage depends.

742


What types of high speed CMOS circuits have you designed?

2052


What is the difference between nmos and pmos technologies?

636


For CMOS logic, give the various techniques you know to minimize power consumption

846


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

2306


Explain sizing of the inverter?

3890