Embedded Systems Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Insights of a Tri-State Inverter?

Intel,

3 7390

Basic Stuff related to Perl?

Intel,

2401

Have you studied buses? What types?

Intel,

5 15094

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 12503

How many bit combinations are there in a byte?

Intel,

6 10104

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

Intel,

3 10166

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

Intel,

2348

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

Intel,

1 9082

Explain the difference between write through and write back cache.

Intel,

2 18133

Are you familiar with the term MESI?

Intel,

1 10354

Are you familiar with the term snooping?

Intel,

1 9186

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

Intel,

1 16660

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

IBM, Intel, nvidia,

3 18845

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 14346

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

Intel, Zensar,

1 4619


Un-Answered Questions { Embedded Systems }

Differentiate between hardware and software interrupts and state examples for both?

554


Explain the Charge Sharing problem while sampling data from a Bus?

2099


Classify interrupts on the basis of signals.

543


What is kernel paging?

461


Why is it better to use multi-threading polling instead of a single threading model?

570






How many i/o ports are present in the 8086?

649


How do you size NMOS and PMOS transistors to increase the threshold voltage?

2534


What are the languages used in embedded system?

437


Why embedded system is useful?

511


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

444


Explain sim and rim instructions?

701


What is the last programming book you read?

425


Explain the significance of signal?

579


Define discrete time

493


Explain the difference between "set" logic, and "procedural" logic.

476