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San Diego headquartered microchip giant Qualcomm Inc. recently reported its quarterly sales and results out on April 20, 2016 that went past the expectations of The Wall Street Exchange. The company credited its strong results across the entire chipset business to resolving an issue over licensing terms with South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. The firm…
The PC giant and driver of the semiconductor industry Intel Corporation has recently decided to layoff 11% of its staff and has cut 12,000 jobs owing to its sequential decline in quarterly revenues and profits. The layoff would take place by mid of 2017 worldwide. Intel is dominating data center market with its Xeon chips and also…
Mentor Graphics Corporation founded the Higher Education Program in 1985 to further the development of skilled engineers within the electronics industry. The program provides colleges and universities with leading edge design tools for classroom instruction and academic research to help ensure that engineering graduates enter into industry proficient with state-of-the-art tools and techniques. “Verification of…
Wipro Limited Technical Interviews Question Bank continued from Part-1 Q. What is the difference between authorization and authentication, for example when you enter your card details while net banking?Ans. A user is first authenticated, i.e. identity of the user is verified (valid bank card details). Then it proceeds to authorization where if the user has…
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Q. What is inheritance in Java? Ans. Inheritance is when a class inherits the properties of another class. The class which inherits is called the child class and the class from which the properties are inherited is called the parent class. Q. What is importance inheritance in Java?Ans. Inheritance improves the reusability of code. Q….
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There are Two types of Procedural Assignments in Verilog. To learn more about Delay: Read Delay in Assignment (#) in Verilog Blocking assignments Example: Non-Blocking assignments Example: To learn more about Blocking and Non_Blocking Assignments: Read Synthesis and Functioning of Blocking and Non-Blocking Assignments The following example shows interactions between blocking and non-blocking for simulation only (not…
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Syntax: #delay It delays execution for a specific amount of time, ‘delay’. There are two types of delay assignments in Verilog: Delayed assignment: #Δt variable = expression; // “expression” gets evaluated after the time delay Δt and assigned to the “variable” immediately Intra-assignment delay: variable = #Δt expression; // “expression” gets evaluated at time 0 but gets assigned to the “variable”…
MOS scaling has introduced many undesired effects, known second order ones being channel length modulation, velocity saturation, mobility degradation etc. These are introducing a new set of challenges for the designers. From the performance perspective, supply voltage scaling has reduced the driving capability of MOS due to decrease in effective overdrive voltage. On the other…
Here are some examples on blocking and non-blocking assignments in Verilog, that can be really useful for the budding design Engineers. First let us discuss the features of these assignments. The following example illustrates the Blocking Assignment Wave forms for the above exampleThe following example illustrates the Non-Blocking Assignment Wave forms for the above example…
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I want to share my interview experience in Si2Chip, a design and layout based service company in Bangalore. I applied though the career section of the company and got the call for the Memory Design requirement. There were two telephonic technical rounds consisting of quality technical discussion. Most of the discussion revolved around Memory design…
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