Phone screening: Took about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

The first 40 minutes were about my background (resume, educational background, and related topics).

The next 40 minutes were used for answering a few technical questions.

Resume Questions:

• Tell me about yourself (what courses you have taken, what areas of interest, etc.).
• Describe three of your projects: one design project, one verification project, and one architecture project.
  • (Details of each project were asked, such as the clock period of your design, the language used, and what you mean by setup and hold time).
  • After each project, I was asked what technical skills I had gained from it.

Technical Questions:

1. Design question: Given a code, identify whether it was a sequential or combinational circuit and, if sequential, how many clock cycles.
2. Given a function (e.g., a C++ function) and asked for the outcome of the function for a given input value (the function was for finding the nearest power of 2 lesser than the given integer).
3. Design question: What is the quickest algorithm to find the highest position of a 1 (the first '1' going from left to right) in a 16-bit input value?
4. List UVM component phases.