Embedded Systems Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the difference between = and == in C?

Intel,

5 9546

Are you familiar with VHDL and/or Verilog?

Intel,

17 23273

What types of CMOS memories have you designed? What were their size? Speed?

Intel, Wipro,

4142

What work have you done on full chip Clock and Power distribution? What process technology and budgets were used?

Intel,

2734

What types of I/O have you designed? What were their size? Speed? Configuration? Voltage requirements?

Intel,

1 4286

Process technology? What package was used and how did you model the package/system? What parasitic effects were considered?

Intel,

2631

What types of high speed CMOS circuits have you designed?

Infosys, Intel,

2 13480

What transistor level design tools are you proficient with? What types of designs were they used on?

Intel,

4562

What products have you designed which have entered high volume production?

Intel,

1 6748

What was your role in the silicon evaluation/product ramp? What tools did you use?

Intel,

3203

If not into production, how far did you follow the design and why did not you see it into production?

Intel,

1 4552

What is the most complicated/valuable program you written in C/C++?

HCL, IBM, Intel, TCS, TVS, Wipro,

23 35611

Give two ways of converting a two input NAND gate to an inverter ?

2 16964

Given a circuit, draw its exact timing response?

ATS,

3221

What are set up time & hold time constraints What do they signify Which one is critical for estimating maximum clock frequency of a circuit?

AMD,

1 8857


Un-Answered Questions { Embedded Systems }

List out some of the commonly found errors in Embedded Systems?

539


What is your experience with technical documentation?

552


What is lookup table microcontroller?

554


What is the purpose of having depletion mode device?

607


What's the price in 1K quantity?

2380






What is null pointer and what is its use?

424


What type of scheduling is there in rtos?

423


What is a 'const' variable?

486


Calculate rise delay of a 3-input NAND gate driving a 3-input NOR gate through a 6mm long and 0.45m wide metal wire with sheet resistance R = 0.065 / and Cpermicron= 0.25 fF/m. The resistance and capacitance of the unit NMOS are 6.5k and 2.5fF. Use a 3 segment -model for the wire. Consider PMOS and NMOS size of reference inverter as 2 and 1 respectively. Use appropriate sizing for the NAND and NOR gate.

3377


What is loop unrolling?

489


Describe the aaa instruction with the help of an example?

542


What are the different types of instructions of 8085?

569


In Verilog code what does “timescale 1 ns/ 1 ps” signifies?

681


What are different adder circuits you studied?

560


What is the maximum internal clock frequency of 8086?

633