System-On-Chip (SOC) Interconnect - Electronic Engineering (MCQ) questions & answers

1)   The power consumption of static CMOS gates varies with the _____ of power supply voltage.

a. square
b. cube
c. fourth power
d. 1/8 th power
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: square

Explanation:
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2)   In a chip, which type/s of pad design/s is/are adopted to solve the problem of pin count?

a. Input pad design
b. Output pad design
c. Three state pad design
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Three state pad design

Explanation:
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3)   Maze routing is used to determine the _______path for a single wire between a set of points, if any path exists.

a. Shortest
b. Average
c. Longest
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Shortest

Explanation:
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4)   Maze routing is also known as ________

a. Viterbi's algorithm
b. Lee/Moore algorithm
c. Prim's algorithm
d. Quine-McCluskey algorithm
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Lee/Moore algorithm

Explanation:
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5)   In floorplanning, which phase/s play/s a crucial role in minimizing the ASIC area and the interconnection density?

a. Placement
b. Global Routing
c. Detailed Routing
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Placement

Explanation:
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6)   In floorplanning, placement and routing are __________ tools.

a. Front end
b. Back end
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Back end

Explanation:
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7)   In signal integrity, which noise/s occur/s due to impedance mismatch, stubs, vias and other interconnection discontinuities?

a. Power/Ground Noise
b. Crosstalk Noise
c. Reflection Noise
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Reflection Noise

Explanation:
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8)   Increase in the physical distance of H-tree _________the skew rate.

a. Increases
b. Stabilizes
c. Decreases
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Increases

Explanation:
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9)   Which method/s of physical clocking is/are a /the recursive structure where the memory elements are grouped together to make the use of nearby or same distribution points?

a. H tree
b. Balanced tree clock network
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: H tree

Explanation:
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10)   Before the commencement of design, the clocking strategy determine/s __________

a. Number of clock signals necessary for routing throughout the chip
b. Number of transistors used per storage requirement
c. Power dissipated by chip & the size of chip
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
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