Testing
Some Testing Glossary
Black box testing not based on any knowledge of internal design or code. Tests are based on requirements and functional…
Interview Questions
Interview Questions - Computer Architecture
Boolean logic Minimization State machine design Synchronous circuit timing, races, testability Pipelines and hazards…
Interview Questions
Interview Questions - VLSI
This is a general checklist for freshers to take on the job hunting adventure... CMOS gates, complex gates, Latch and …
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Scan Test
A 1.2GHz chip has scan chains of length 30,000 bits, 20,000 bits, 24,000 bits, 25,000 bits, and two of 12,000 bits. 500…
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Effects on power
The VLSI gurus at your company have come up with a way to decrease the average rise and fall time (0-to-1 and 1-to-0 tr…
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Timing Analysis
If you were to compare a typical digital circuit from 5 years ago with a typical digital circuit today, would you find …
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Low power design
The new vice president of your company has set up a contest for ideas to reduce leakage power in the next generation of…
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Low power design
As temperature increases, does the power consumed by a typical combinational circuit increase, stay the same, or decrea…
Verilog Tutorial
Comprehensive Verilog Tutorials
The Hyper-links will be updated when the Chapter-wise Tutorials are complete! Your comments, feedback & suggestions…
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Design Guidelines
While you are shopping you encounter your supervisor from last year. He's now forming a startup company. He's w…
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Design & Optimization
This question involves doing some of the design work for a circuit that implements Instruction P and Instruction Q usin…
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Performance Analysis
A farmer is trying to decide which of his two trucks to use to transport his apples along the narrow and winding dirt r…
Interview Questions
Some good Puzzles / Interview questions
Great Puzzles / VLSI Design Interview questions Everything that is tagged "Interview Questions" - Link Aptitu…
Technology
FerroElectric RAM
If you've fantasized about how wonderful your life could be if the merits of DRAM, SRAM and Flash memory could all …
News
Nokia Q3 profit - 2.2$B
While everyone else was distracted by some touchscreen thing, Nokia spent the past quarter absolutely dominating the wo…
Career
Recipes for an extraordinary career
Skepticism OK – Cynicism NOT! Skepticism is a method But Cynicism is a position!
Career
Recipes for an extraordinary career
Don't hide behind the process! All good companies have well thought-out processes But Don't let it get in the w…
E-Books
E-Books
Hello and Welcome!! If you are looking for free E-Books you are in the wrong place !!!!!!! We only feature some good E-…
Power Gating
Hierarchy and Power Gating
A scalable approach to chip architecture is essential and valuable since a SOC design today often becomes a component i…
Low Power
Architecture and partitioning for low power
A good working definition of architecture ( in the context of IP design, atleast) is the partitioning and interface des…
Retention
Retention mechanisms in power gated designs
How can we retain state of some of the registers in the design? How to deal with memory state? Let me try to explain…
Timing
Timing closure impacted by DVFS!!
While designing systems with DVFS techniques, we need to look at the impact of temperature inversion on the performance…
Board Design
Tip of the day - Board Design
Have you ever asked yourself the question: What should I do with the areas under the ICs? My advise is: If you have a m…