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| What happens when the gate oxide is very thin? | Intel | 2 |
| What products have you designed which have entered high
volume production? | Intel | 1 |
| What is charge sharing? | Intel | 1 |
| Factors affecting Power Consumption on a chip? | Intel | 1 |
| 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 |
| Define threshold voltage? | Intel | 3 |
| What are the two types of noise of MOSFET, how to eliminate
them?(Thermal and Flicker). | Analog-Devices | 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 |
| What are set up time & hold time constraints? What do they
signify? | | 1 |
| Explain Clock Skew? | Intel | 2 |
| Which gate is normally preferred while implementing circuits
using CMOS logic, NAND or NOR? Why? | Intel | 6 |
| Who provides the DRC rules? | Intel | 2 |
| For a 0.18um and 0.8um technology MOSFET, which has a higher
cutoff frequency? | | 1 |
| What are the different limitations in increasing the power
supply to reduce delay? | | 1 |
| Explain the concept of a Clock Divider Circuit? Write a VHDL
code for the same? | Intel | 1 |
| What types of high speed CMOS circuits have you designed? | Intel | 1 |
| For a single computer processor computer system, what is the
purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation? | Intel | 1 |
| What happens to delay if you increase load capacitance? | | 2 |
| How do you detect if two 8-bit signals are same? | | 4 |
| Differences between D-Latch and D flip-flop? | Intel | 6 |
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