Embedded Systems Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Explain the difference between write through and write back cache.

Intel,

2 15365

Are you familiar with the term MESI?

Intel,

2108

Are you familiar with the term snooping?

Intel,

2915

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

Intel, Sun Microsystems,

2309

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

Intel,

1 4510

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,

2173

Are you familiar with VHDL and/or Verilog?

Intel,

1 3683

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

e-tec, Intel,

2620

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

Intel,

2338

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

Intel,

1999

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

Intel,

1776

What types of high speed CMOS circuits have you designed?

Intel,

2057

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

Intel,

2865

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

Intel,

1957

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

Intel,

1852


Un-Answered Questions { Embedded Systems }

Please explain what is interrupt latency? How can you reduce it?

443


Can you name any code testing tools?

488


What is the purpose of segment register?

544


The operation being performed by the 8085 can be checked by which pins?

575


Why is java used in embedded systems?

497






Scope of static variables?

505


Where 8086 mostly used & tell application of 8086?

613


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

476


What is the significance of the clk pin in the 8086?

771


Explain the Various steps in Synthesis?

2820


What are the different types of assemblers used?

596


In how many groups can the signals of 8085 be classified?

659


Why continuous integration is important?

421


Have you developed software testing procedures for new systems and performed qa, quality assurance, or audits?

433


What is interaction semantics used in embedded systems?

455