Have 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 ?
4 14124For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation?
3 11728Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.
2861Describe a finite state machine that will detect three consecutive coin tosses (of one coin) that results in heads.
1 18254In what cases do you need to double clock a signal before presenting it to a synchronous state machine?
3 20880You 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?
4 16098
What is the ideal input and output resistance of a current source?
Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.
6-T XOR gate?
Explain the operation of a 6T-SRAM cell?
What are the Advantages and disadvantages of Mealy and Moore?
Explain sizing of the inverter?
Why do we gradually increase the size of inverters in buffer design? Why not give the output of a circuit to one large inverter?
why is the number of gate inputs to CMOS gates usually limited to four?
Mention what are the different gates where Boolean logic are applicable?
What does the above code synthesize to?
Are you familiar with the term MESI?
What is the difference between cmos and bipolar technologies?
Give various factors on which threshold voltage depends.
Draw the Cross Section of an Inverter? Clearly show all the connections between M1 and poly, M1 and diffusion layers etc?
How do you size NMOS and PMOS transistors to increase the threshold voltage?