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| Are you familiar with the term MESI? | Intel | 1 |
| Why is Extraction performed? | Intel | 1 |
| What are the different limitations in increasing the power
supply to reduce delay? | | 1 |
| Implement an Inverter using a single transistor? | Intel | 1 |
| What are the two types of noise of MOSFET, how to eliminate
them?(Thermal and Flicker). | Analog-Devices | 2 |
| Define threshold voltage? | Intel | 3 |
| What products have you designed which have entered high
volume production? | 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 |
| What is the difference between = and == in C? | Intel | 5 |
| What happens when the gate oxide is very thin? | Intel | 2 |
| How do you detect if two 8-bit signals are same? | | 4 |
| What is Noise Margin? Explain the procedure to determine
Noise Margin? | Cisco | 2 |
| Differences between DRAM and SRAM? | Intel | 4 |
| What is SPICE? | Intel | 1 |
| In what cases do you need to double clock a signal before
presenting it to a synchronous state machine? | Intel | 2 |
| Explain about stuck at fault models, scan design, BIST and
IDDQ testing? | Intel | 1 |
| What is a linked list? Explain the 2 fields in a linked list? | Intel | 1 |
| What is polymorphism? (C++) | Intel | 1 |
| What is LVS, DRC? | Intel | 4 |
| Have you studied buses? What types? | Intel | 1 |
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