Interview Questions?

Basic Interfaces:

1. Diff between micro processor and controller?

2. Difference between Nand and Nor Flash?
3. What is the use of NAnd or Nor flash in a system?
4. how i will you choose the memory or size identification?
5. what is the code size? what is your flash size?
6. Do you know about I2c?
7. Why I2c need pull up? and How will you choose the value?

how many device can be connected in I2C?

How the no of device is choosen?

is that multimaster or multislave?

speed of operation or datarate?

how will you connect two i2c device to a master?

Data interpretation is edge detect or level detected?(Cpol and Cphase)

how the i2c master select the slave device?

Who will have the controlle of Clock( master or slave)?

1. Difference between I2c and SPi?

2. Explain Spi?
3. how the spi master select the slave device?
4. If two master slect the slave , who will get connect to slave?
5. USB interface?
6. Pinout of USb?

7. speed of usb1.0,2.0,2.1,3.0?
8. difference between usb2.0 and usb3.0?
9. impedance of D+ and D- line in usb?
10. what is usb Enumuration?
11. differnce between Host, device and otg mode?
12. how will identify my usb is host or device or otg?
13. how will you identify my deivce is USb low speed or full speed or high speed or super speed?
14. what is J and K chirps in USb what it's use?
15. What is the use of JTAG? Pinouts?
16. UART? How will control the flow of data? speed?
17. Have you s=used DDR? what are differnt type of DDR available?
18. Difference between DDR DDR2 and DDR3?( Speed/Power/latency)
19. Difference between DDR and LPddr?
20. what are the signal in ddr interface?
21. What is the use of Strobe?
22. What is the speed you have used?
23. What is the topology you have used ?( point to point or point to multi point)
24. what is DDR DIMM? advantage of ddr Dimm?

Power Supply:

1. Difference between LDo and DC Dc Converter?

2. Draw and explain one simple LDO circuit? ( simple zener regulator)
3. What differnt type of Dc dc converter?
4. Explain buck or boost or buck boost with internal architecture?
5. what are important parameters while choosing DC DC converters( efficeiency/op power)?

6. Convert one 12v 3 A dc to 5V/ 1A and 3.3V/0.5A and 1.8V/0.5A and 1.35V/0.1A( draw block
level)?

7. How you done any Power budget analysis?

8. How you worked with Battery charger/ rechargebale battery?
9. How to choose the battery to work for 3.3v of supply and 0.5 A of current and it should opperate
for 1 hour ? what will be my battery spec?

10. In case of battery charging with usb means what is the maximum current sourced by the USb ?
11. what is decoupling Capacitor? what it will do? how will choose the value of the capacitor?

Analog:

1. Op amp basic characteristics?

2. Draw the circuit using opamp and explain with the output expression?
3. Draw the LP/HP filter or Integrator /Differntiator using RC or RL? and derive the Vout
expression?

4. Differnce between FET and BJT ?

5. What are differnt types of ADC?
6. What is the use of Vref in ADC?
7. How will you choose the ADC of 8bit or 10 bit ?
8. have you use any signal conditioning in between adc and sensors?

Digital:

1. What is setup time and Hold Time?

2. what is raise time and fall time?
3. Do you know Jitter? what are types of jitter?
4. How to analysis the Jitter?
5. How we can measure the jitter?
6. to over come the jitter?

7. What is skew? what is the reason for skew? how to overcome it?
8. How you use termination ? what are the differnt types of termination? when to use which type
of termination?

9. What is the value of the termination restior you used?

10. What is differntial signal? advantage of it?
11. Have probe the high speed signal?
12. if my signal is 1GHz what is the mimum scope band width required in the osciloscope?
13. What is Eye diagram? what are the things we can interpretate from it?
14. what is the Bit width?
15. From what frequency the signal is called High speed signal?
16. Is it necessary to do the SI for 100MHz signal?
17. What are main reason for signal integrity issue?

Common :

1. Have choose the component to you project?

2. how will you choose inductor or capcitor or resistor?
3. What are parametes you will look for inductor?(current rating /type )
4. what are the parameter you will look for Capacitor? ( material, votage rating/ temperature
coeff,.i.e X7R or X5R)

5. What do you know about ROHS?

6. Have you worked on EMI and EMC?
7. How will you take care of EMC and EMI problem?
8. What is the biggest issue you have faced while debugging? how did you solved it?
9. how will you test your pcb or how will you start your board bring up? ( cold test,
impedance measurement, component placement, orientation of chips, especialy in
diode,clock and reset)

10. Have you worked for Medical/automation or comerical product what the key aspect you
will take care while choosing the product/ for certification?

11. Have you went through any certification process?( FCC,CE, ISO, MEdical)
12. RGMII Interface
What is the clock frequency of RGMII interface?
How 100bT is achieved through 124MHz clock?
13.How impedance is achieved in PCB?
What is the reason for 50 ohm Impedance?
14.HOW host or device or OTG is detected in USB OTG?
15.Draw any 1 switching regulator and denote the current direction during ON and OFF state
16.What is the interface for WiFi, IEEE standards of WiFi
17.What is inside an LDO?
18.Parameters of LDO?
19.Loadr Regulation / Line Regulation
20.Max freq of your processor,Clock you provided?
21.Protection circuits
22.Data rate of WiFi and Bluetooth?
23.What will happen if 2 batteries are connected in series/Parallel?
24.Parameters for choosing a resistor? Derating factor?
24.Impedandce of an inductor?,reactance of an Inductor?
26.Max devices can be connected in I2C bus? Is it practically possible to connect 127devices
on the same bus?
27.Grouping of DDR signals?
28.Routing considerations for high speed signals
29.How to overcome ringing of a signal?

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