What is Noise Margin? Explain the procedure to determine Noise Margin?
What is Body Effect?
Explain the Charge Sharing problem while sampling data from a Bus?
What happens if we use an Inverter instead of the Differential Sense Amplifier?
What is the critical path in a SRAM?
In a SRAM layout, which metal layers would you prefer for Word Lines and Bit Lines? Why?
What are the ways to Optimize the Performance of a Difference Amplifier?
What's the price in 1K quantity?
For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation?
What are the main issues associated with multiprocessor caches and how might you solve them?
Are you familiar with the term MESI?
Are you familiar with the term snooping?
Describe a finite state machine that will detect three consecutive coin tosses (of one coin) that results in heads.
You 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?
What types of CMOS memories have you designed? What were their size? Speed?