Practice - Optimization Strategies for Performance and Area
Practice Questions
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What is the critical path in a VLSI design?
💡 Hint: Think about what influences the speed of a circuit.
Name one technique used in area optimization.
💡 Hint: Consider how we can resize physical components.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is critical path optimization concerned with?
💡 Hint: Think about the path that determines speed.
True or False: Block merging increases the area used by a chip.
💡 Hint: Consider the result of combining.
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Challenge Problems
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If a design has a critical path delay of 5ns and can be optimized to 3ns using retiming, what percentage improvement does that represent?
💡 Hint: Think about how much faster the new delay is compared to the old one.
Consider a scenario where block merging saves 10% of area, leading to cost savings. If the original area was 200 mm², what is the new area?
💡 Hint: Figure out 10% of 200 first.
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