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| Question | Asked @ | Answers |
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| Explain Clock Skew? | Intel | 2 |
| How to find the read failiure probablity in SRAM?
| | 1 |
| Explain the various Capacitances associated with a
transistor and which one of them is the most prominent? | Intel | 1 |
| Why is Extraction performed? | Intel | 1 |
| What is the most complicated/valuable program you written in
C/C++? | Intel | 6 |
| How does Resistance of the metal lines vary with increasing
thickness and increasing length? | | 1 |
| How many bit combinations are there in a byte? | Intel | 4 |
| What types of high speed CMOS circuits have you designed? | Intel | 1 |
| Implement D flip-flop with a couple of latches? Write a VHDL
Code for a D flip-flop? | Intel | 3 |
| what is Early effects and their physical origin. | | 1 |
| What is LVS, DRC? | Intel | 4 |
| What is setup time and hold time? | Intel | 1 |
| What is Noise Margin? Explain the procedure to determine
Noise Margin? | Cisco | 2 |
| Give the expression for CMOS switching power dissipation? | | 2 |
| 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 ? | Intel | 2 |
| For a 0.18um and 0.8um technology MOSFET, which has a higher
cutoff frequency? | | 1 |
| Are you familiar with VHDL and/or Verilog? | Intel | 4 |
| Explain about stuck at fault models, scan design, BIST and
IDDQ testing? | Intel | 1 |
| What are set up time & hold time constraints? What do they
signify? | | 1 |
| what is Latch up?How to avoid Latch up? | | 2 |
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