1 hour 15 mins Interview

1. Questions in Projects related to physical design

2. Unix:

   • Grep
   • Directory search commands
   • man command
   • Process information

3. Static Timing Analysis:

   • Difference between latch and FF
   • Setup/Hold Analysis
   • Improve setup/hold violations
   • Max frequency
   • Time borrowing

4. Device Physics:

   • Sizing
   • Delay
   • Electron Migration
   • PVT
   • Resistance

5. Perl: basic Perl questions

6. Computer Architecture Basics:

   • Cache
   • Cache protocols
   • ISA
   • Pipeline
   • Branch Prediction
   • Virtual Memory

7. Verilog Questions:

   • Blocking/Non-blocking assignments
   • always block
   • initial block
   • Modeling sequential and parallel blocks

Misc:

• Solve boolean expressions
• Design FSM
• K-map

Why do we use many layers for the interconnect?