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VLSI Frequently asked interview
0750long | 2009-04-03 13:45:35    阅读:1675   发布文章

VLSI Frequently asked interview

 

VLSI Frequently asked interview Questions with answers

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  • what is the difference between mealy and moore state-machines
  • how to solve setup and hold violations in the design
  • what is antenna violation & ways to prevent it
  • we have multiple instances in RTL(Register Transfer Language), do you do anything special during synthesis stage
  • what is tie-high and tie-low cells and where it is used
  • what is the difference between latches and flip-flops based designs
  • what is High-Vt and Low Vt cells
  • what is LEF mean?
  • what is DEF mean?
  • steps involved in designing an optimal padring
  • what is metastability and steps to prevent it
  • what is local-skew, global skew and useful skew
  • what are the various timing-paths which i should take care in my STA runs?
  • what are the various components of leakage-power
  • what are the various yield losses in the design
  • what is meant by virtual clock definition and why do i need it
  • what are the various variations which impacts timing of the design
  • what are the various Design constraints used, while performing synthesis for a design
  • specify few verilog constructs which are not supported by the synthesis tool
  • what are the various capacitances with an MOSFET?
  • Vds-Ids curve for an MOSFET, with increasing Vgs
  • explain basic operation of an MOSFET
  • what is channel length modulation
  • what is body effect
  • what is latchup in CMOS design and ways to prevent it?
  • what are the various design changes you do to meet design power targets
  • what is meant by library characterization
  • what is meant by wireload model
  • what are the measures to be taken to design for optimized area
  • what all will you be thinking while performing floorplan
  • what are the measures in the design taken for meeting signal integrity targets
  • what are the measures taken in the Design achieving better yield
  • what are the measures or precautions to be taken in the design when the chip has both analog and digital portions.
  • what are the steps incorporated for Engineering Change order[ECO]
  • what are the steps performed to achieve Lithography friendly Design
  • what does synthesis mean?
  • what are the pre-requistes to perform synthesis
  • can you explain the synthesis flow
  • what are the various ways to reduce clock insertion delay in the design
  • what are the various functional verification methodologies
  • what does formal verification mean
  • how will you time the output path in STA
  • how will you time the input path in STA
  • what is false path mean in STA and in what scenarios falsepath can come
  • what does multicycle path mean in STA and in what scenarios MCP can come
  • what are source synchronous paths in STA
  • Assume there is a specific requirement to preserve the logic during synthesis , how will you achieve it
  • we have multiple instances in RTL, do you do anything special during synthesis stage
  • what do you call an event and when do you call an assertion

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