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CMOS Interview Guide

The CMOS Interview Preparation Guide covers essential topics related to Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor technology, including its advantages, inverter functionality, and key interview questions at various levels. It emphasizes understanding power dynamics, logical effort, and common mistakes to avoid during interviews. Tips for successful placement include confidence in drawing CMOS logic and explaining tradeoffs in delay and power.

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CMOS Interview Guide

The CMOS Interview Preparation Guide covers essential topics related to Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor technology, including its advantages, inverter functionality, and key interview questions at various levels. It emphasizes understanding power dynamics, logical effort, and common mistakes to avoid during interviews. Tips for successful placement include confidence in drawing CMOS logic and explaining tradeoffs in delay and power.

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CMOS Interview Preparation Guide

CMOS INTERVIEW OVERVIEW

1. What is CMOS?

CMOS stands for Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor. It uses both NMOS and PMOS

transistors to form logic gates.

2. Why CMOS?

- Low static power

- High noise margin

- Scalable and widely used in digital ICs

3. CMOS Inverter:

PMOS pulls high, NMOS pulls low.

Truth Table:

Input: 0 -> Output: 1

Input: 1 -> Output: 0

4. Key Interview Topics:

- CMOS Inverter VTC, noise margins

- Propagation delay: tp = 0.69RC

- Power: P = alpha * C * V^2 * f (dynamic), leakage (static)

- Stick diagrams, layouts

- Logical effort, scaling

- Charge sharing, short-circuit current


5. CMOS Interview Questions:

Basic Level:

- What are NMOS and PMOS?

- Explain CMOS inverter

- Why use CMOS logic?

Mid-Level:

- Explain dynamic and static power

- What if both NMOS and PMOS conduct?

- Sizing transistors

Advanced Level:

- Optimize delay in CMOS

- Logical effort use

- Threshold voltage effects

- 2-input NAND using CMOS

6. Tips for Placement:

- Be confident in drawing CMOS logic

- Explain tradeoffs in delay/power

- Understand VTC, layout basics

- Review Elmore delay, scaling

7. Mistakes to Avoid:

- Mixing dynamic vs static power

- Forgetting short-circuit current


- PMOS is not NMOS: PMOS pulls high, size it larger

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