What types of I/O have you designed? What were their size?
Speed? Configuration? Voltage requirements?
Tell me the parameters as many as possible you know that used to character an amplifier?
What happens if we increase the number of contacts or via from one metal layer to the next?
If not into production, how far did you follow the design and why did not you see it into production?
6-T XOR gate?
Explain what is scr (silicon controlled rectifier)?
What work have you done on full chip Clock and Power distribution? What process technology and budgets were used?
What are the different design constraints occur in the synthesis phase?
Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.
Explain the difference between write through and write back cache.
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 ?
In vlsi chip 1000s of transistors are dropped, specifically categorized. Which method is used to achieve this & how it is done practically?
Draw the stick diagram of a NOR gate. Optimize it