Verification
ASIC and FPGA Verification: A Guide to Component Modeling (Systems on Silicon)
ASIC and FPGA Verification: A Guide to Component Modeling (Systems on Silicon) by Richard Munden "As large and co…
Course
MIT - 6.823 Computer System Architecture - Fall 2007 (Lecture Notes)
L-01: Computer System Architecture, pdf , ppt [09/05/07] 1-Intro: Introduction to Pin, pdf [09/05/07] L-02: Influen…
Course
MIT student projects - 6.884 Complex Digital Systems
Out-of-Order SMIPS Processor Using Tomasulo's Algorithm Cliff Frey and Vicky Liu Final presentation [ PDF , PDF-4UP…
Company Ranking
2007 chip rankings, the Sliders and the Climbers
Source EE Times Intel, Sony, Toshiba and Qualcomm are the stars -- or winners -- in iSuppli Corp.'s projected IC ra…
Gadgets
Wireless HMD
YelloMosquito delivers Qingbar Gp300: the wireless HMD Courtest - Engadget Although you may not be familiar with Yell…
News
Interview: Intel research trio discuss 45-nm high-k
via EE Times Semiconductor News on 11/22/07 Three Intel researchers Robert Chau, Kaizad Mistry and Tahir Ghani, who …
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Intel, Folsom
Your next co-op job is with the Independent Eagle-Eyed Elective, a consulting firm that performs code reviews for other…
Disclaimer
Disclaimer & Agreement
BY READING "The Digital Electronics Blog", YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. If you do n…
Triple Play
BSNL IPTV, Triple Play, Multi Play, India
Message from BSNL Customer care.. Hello Sir/Madam, I would like to add something more to about IPTV Service Blog. We ar…
Interview Questions
Inverter madness - Interview Question
The following graph plots the voltage transfer characteristic for a device with one input and one output. Can this devi…
Interview Questions
Digital Abstraction - Interview Question
The behavior of a 1-input, 1-output device is measured by hooking a voltage source to its input and measuring the volta…
VHDL
VHDL Interview Question(s)
What are the two key concepts in the simulation semantics of VHDL and how does each concept help VHDL simulation produc…
Breakthrough
Intel's Power-Efficient Penryn Processors
Over the weekend Intel launched its long-awaited new 'Penryn' line of power-efficient microprocessors , designe…
Interview Questions
Funny twist with compression and performance - Interview Question
The organization Scholastic Lecture Expert Productivity Testers (SLEPT), has defined a standardized algorithm to compre…
Interview Questions
The Good, the Bad, and the Unsynthesizable - Interview Questions
For each of the code fragments, answer whether the code is legal VHDL. If the code is legal VHDL, answer whether it is…
Interview Questions
Texas Instruments, Bangalore - Interview Questions - Freshers
For the following question, you only need to give the relevant VHDL code fragment (i.e. process that drives the flop). …
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Bangalore
Assume a clock-gating scheme for turning off the clock in certain situations: 60% of the time, the main circuit has va…
Interview Questions
Qualcomm Interview Questions - Bangalore
The average performance of products in your market segment triples every 36 months. Your design engineers have proposed…
Verification
Broadcom Bangalore - Interview Questions
The new vice president of your company has set up a contest for ideas to reduce leakage power in the next generation of…
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 …