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In your experience, how do soft and hard constraints in SystemVerilog differ?
### Question Analysis The question is asking you to differentiate between two types of constraints i...
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Design Verification Engineer
Coding
58958
What is your strategy for validating a string as a palindrome?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about a strategy to determine if a given string is a pa...
ABB, Agilent Technologies, Alstom, AMD, Amgen, Belkin, Cirrus Logic, KLA, Leidos, Mayo Clinic, Micron Technology, Oppo, Pratt & Whitney, Samsung, Silicon Labs, STMicroelectronics, Zoox
Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
14180
Could you explain the concept of a counter's modulus and the modulus of a decade counter?
### Question Analysis The question is asking for an explanation of two related concepts in digital e...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
46433
In what manner would you develop a multi-bit FIFO circuit?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the development of a multi-bit FIFO (First-In, Fi...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
3168
Could you explain the concept of a counter's modulus and the modulus of a decade counter?
### Question Analysis The question asks about two related concepts in digital electronics: the modul...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
1142
How does UVM approach reusability and scalability in the context of verification?
### Question Analysis The question focuses on the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), which is...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
29791
How does UVM approach reusability and scalability in the context of verification?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and ...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
31234
What are some examples of how counters are applied in practical settings?
### Question Analysis This question seeks to evaluate your understanding of counters and their pract...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
24734
What are some examples of how counters are applied in practical settings?
### Question Analysis The question asks for examples of how counters are utilized in real-world appl...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
9390
What's the difference between Verilog's # directive and $timeformat directive?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about two different directives in Verilog: the `#` dire...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
44446
What's the difference between Verilog's # directive and $timeformat directive?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about two specific directives used in Verilog, a hardwa...
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Design Verification Engineer
Coding
10517
How would you design and code an LRU cache policy in C++?
### Question Analysis The question asks you to design and implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) cac...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
25609
In the UVM driver class, what sets the get_next_item() method apart from the get() method?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about two specific methods in the Universal Verificatio...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
1007
In the UVM driver class, what sets the get_next_item() method apart from the get() method?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the difference between two methods, `get_next_ite...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
36399
Can you provide a case where a virtual interface in SystemVerilog proved beneficial in design verification?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the practical application of a virtual interface ...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
44730
Can you provide a case where a virtual interface in SystemVerilog proved beneficial in design verification?
### Question Analysis The question is asking for a specific example or case study where a virtual in...
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Design Verification Engineer
Technical Knowledge
62106
What constitutes a shift register, and how does it operate? Please include a circuit diagram in your explanation.
### Question Analysis The question is asking for an explanation of what a shift register is and how ...
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Design Verification Engineer
Behavioral
34318
What's the reason behind your decision to look for a job presently?
### Question Analysis This question aims to understand the candidate's motivations for seeking new e...
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Design Verification Engineer, Embedded Engineer
Behavioral
33480
What's the reason behind your decision to look for a job presently?
### Question Analysis This question is a common behavioral interview question that seeks to understa...
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Design Verification Engineer, Embedded Engineer
Coding
24021
What approach would you take to write HDL for a FSM with IDLE, READ, and WRITE states, transitioning on "op" input and resetting after 4 cycles?
### Question Analysis This question is asking about designing a Finite State Machine (FSM) using Har...
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Design Verification Engineer