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CMOS inverter delay (Rise time & Fall time estimation)

2. Difference between HDL & VHDL
3. CMOS IC fabrication with patterning SiO2
4. Difference between latch & flip-flop
5. How can you design a high-speed circuit?
6. Determine the channels that exhibit non-linear behavior. (!)
7. What is MIM Capacitance? Derive the modeling of capacitance.
8. What is lumped model? Derive the Elmore delay model.
9. Using the Elmore delay model, find 50% delay of the following logic circuit:
10. CMOS manufacturing steps.
11. CMOS IC fabrication process flow.
12. Delay multistage logic network.
13. Buffer chain determine.
14. Derive the scaling of the MOS transistor.
15. Scaling factors for device parameters.
16. Effects of scaling.
17. (i) Sketch a 2-input NAND gate with transistor width chosen to achieve
worst-case effective rise & fall resistance equal to that of a unit inverter.
(ii) Compute the rising & falling propagation delay of the NAND gate driving
identical NAND gate.
18. (i) Sketch a 3-input NAND gate with transistor width chosen to achieve
effective rise & fall resistance equal to that of a unit inverter.
(ii) Annotate the gate with its gate & diffusion capacitance.
(ii) Assume All diffusion nodes are contacted, then sketch equivalent circuits
for the falling output transition and the worst case rising output transition.
(iv) Estimate tpdf and tpdr for the 3-input NAND gate if the output is
loaded with h identical copies of itself.
19. The technique of improving CMOS performance.
20. Linear delay model.
21. Derive the operation of the ring oscillator.
22. Moore's law.
23. What is the interconnect system of a transistor?
24. Def: Ring oscillator, fan out, Carbon nanotubes, Pseudo NMOS.
25. How can you overcome capacitance and interconnected delay in VLSI
fabrication?
26. Define lumped model and total delay of transistor.
27. CMOS diagram of 3-input NOR gate consisting of pull up and pull down
network.
28. What is interconnect system of a transistor?
29. FPGA definition, Advantage, application.
30. 2-input NOR gate.
31. PIP capacitor.