1. What is polymorphism? (C++)

2. Explain the Various steps in Synthesis?

3. What is Cross Talk?

4. If an/ap = 0.5, an/ap = 1, an/ap = 3, for 3 inverters draw the transfer characteristics?

5. 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 ?

6. Are you familiar with the term snooping?

7. Are you familiar with VHDL and/or Verilog?

8. What products have you designed which have entered high volume production?

9. Insights of a pass gate. Explain the working?

10. Implement D flip-flop with a couple of latches? Write a VHDL Code for a D flip-flop?

11. Insights of a 4bit adder/Sub Circuit?

12. Explain the operation of a 6T-SRAM cell?

13. Write a pseudo code for sorting the numbers in an array?

14. Draw the Cross Section of an Inverter? Clearly show all the connections between M1 and poly, M1 and diffusion layers etc?

15. Differences between Signals and Variables in VHDL? If the same code is written using Signals and Variables what does it synthesize to?

16. Explain Clock Skew?

17. What is LVS, DRC?

18. Implement an Inverter using a single transistor?

19. Insights of a Tri-State Inverter?

20. What are the main issues associated with multiprocessor caches and how might you solve them?

21. What are the total number of lines written by you in C/C++? What is the most complicated/valuable program written in C/C++?

22. Process technology? What package was used and how did you model the package/system? What parasitic effects were considered?

23. Insights of a 2 input NAND gate. Explain the working?

24. What is a D-latch? Write the VHDL Code for it?

25. What is a linked list? Explain the 2 fields in a linked list?