Design a synch FIFO. Was asked a simplified version. Was asked to assume depth of FIFO was 4 and width was 32. He was just looking for how and when I'd update the memory buffer and the control logic for the free and avail Was given a verilog module and asked to figure out what it was doing. Noticed that it was a round robin-ish arbiter. Later was asked if there was any case where starvation (live lock) was possible. It became clear as I was working thru the waveforms there was a specific case where the arbiter can starve any of the requests. Then I was asked to fix the code. Also I was asked how would we catch issue like this. I mentioned that Formal Prop Verif tools are the best vehicles to find bugs on such designs
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Describe your current role. Send a pulse from one clock to another clock. How to send data from one clock domain to another. Minimum sizing of an async FIFO
project on which i worked
mostly questions from resume and typical new grad questions
1. Introduction of your background (Fresh Graduate ? Experienced ? ) 2 What project you have done related to IC design ? 3 Elaborate more on the project (Not only description but also detailed technical question will be asked ) 4 Hand draw some circuit and answer any question they may have (Purpose ? Pros and Cons ? Gain ? )
Why do you want to join this track?
Q1: Talk about your previous project Q2: What do you expect to learn from working as an Analog IC designer?
What's the benefit of a differential pair?
mostly related my school work and basic CMOS circuits
CDC, STA, FIFO, DFT, Basic Verilog questions, Counters
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