Embedded Systems Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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Embedded Systems Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Insights of a Tri-State Inverter?

Intel,

3 9000

Basic Stuff related to Perl?

Intel,

2823

Have you studied buses? What types?

Intel,

5 16998

Have you studied pipelining? List the 5 stages of a 5 stage pipeline. Assuming 1 clock per stage, what is the latency of an instruction in a 5 stage machine? What is the throughput of this machine ?

Intel,

4 14113

How many bit combinations are there in a byte?

Intel,

6 12072

For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation?

Intel,

3 11713

Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.

Intel,

2852

What are the main issues associated with multiprocessor caches and how might you solve them?

Intel,

1 9858

Explain the difference between write through and write back cache.

Intel,

2 19132

Are you familiar with the term MESI?

Intel,

1 11136

Are you familiar with the term snooping?

Intel,

1 10125

Describe a finite state machine that will detect three consecutive coin tosses (of one coin) that results in heads.

Intel,

1 18245

In what cases do you need to double clock a signal before presenting it to a synchronous state machine?

IBM, Intel, nvidia,

3 20857

You have a driver that drives a long signal & connects to an input device. At the input device there is either overshoot, undershoot or signal threshold violations, what can be done to correct this problem?

Intel,

4 16082

What are the total number of lines written by you in C/C++? What compiler was used?

Intel, Zensar,

1 5648

Un-Answered Questions { Embedded Systems }

Cross section of a PMOS transistor?

4773

Describe a software development life cycle that you've managed.

827

Explain the working of Insights of a pass gate ?

1239

Explain me what are the rules followed by mutexes?

792

Tell the addresses which are bit addressable?

1200

What is 8255?

1064

What happens if we use an Inverter instead of the Differential Sense Amplifier?

3004

State the differences between absolute and linear select decosing.

2242

What do you do to stay abreast of the latest technologies and tools?

892

What are recursive functions? Can we make them in line?

842

Explain why is the number of gate inputs to cmos gates usually limited to four?

1502

What is endianness of a system and how do different systems communicate with each other?

855

Tell me how does the interrupts handle by using the threads?

836

Tell me what is difference between binary semaphore and mutex?

885

What is 'daisy-chaining' in reference to the 8086?

1161

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