Mysuru Royal Institute of Technology, Mandya.: Question Bank-2
Mysuru Royal Institute of Technology, Mandya.: Question Bank-2
8. Explain cascaded inverters to drive large capacitive loads. Obtain an equation to find number of
stages.
9. Narrate the steps involved in calculating the sheet resistance of i)Transistor channels ii)nMOS
inverter iii)CMOS inverter.
10. Derive the expressions for rise time and fall time for CMOS inverter.
11. Obtain the expression for total delay for N stages of nmos and cmos inverters in terms of Width
factor f and delay τ.
12. Explain cascaded inverters as drivers , super buffers and Bicmos drivers for large capacitive loads.
13. Calculate the ON resistance for nMOS inverter with R sn=10 KΩ , Z PU =8∧Z pd=1.
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14. What are the scaling factors for:1) Gate capacitance C g 2)Max. Operating frequency f o
3)Current density J 4) power speed product PT 5) parasitic capacitance Cx 6) Power dissipation
per unit area. 7)Channel resistance 8) Saturation Current 9)oxide capacitance C o 10) Gate area A g
11) Qon 12) Gate delay Td 13) Power dissipation per gate 14) switching energy per gate .
15. How to implement arithmetic and logic operations with a standard adder? Explain with the help of
logic expressions.
16. What is structured design process? Explain.
17. Discuss the problem associated with VLSI Design.
18. List and explain the general considerations to be considered in digital system design
19. Explain the design of data path in 4 bit arithmetic processor with floor plan for 4 bit data path
20. Write MOS switch implementation of 4X4 crossbar switch.
21. Define regularity and explain the design of an ALU subsystem
22. Explain Manchester carry chain with expression and circuits.
23. List the 3 different techniques for carry generation and explain carry select adder with
optimization.
24. Explain carry skip adder with optimization.
25. Explain carry look ahead adder.