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In recent few years VLSI design has achieved remarkable growth. High performance (peta-scale) computing is a reality now and we are expecting exa-scale computing by 2020. We talk about many core processor now a days. Intel’s Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) with 72 cores and IBM’s Kilocore processors with more than 1000 cores are great examples…
Device driver is a computer program that controls a particular device that is connected to the system be it printers, CD-ROM readers etc. Before we go into device drivers, let us get a brief of the Linux architecture. The Linux virtual memory is divided into two partitions namely user space and kernel space to protect…
This is an interview experience of Qualcomm, an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company. This is an on campus placement experience and has been share by Mr. Ishaind Gupta (IIIT Delhi). As we all know that in this every second changing world a smart phone plays a very big role. A smartphone enables a…
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This post is about characterizing or calculating pin average toggling power for any on chip module, using SPICE simulations, Toggling power or Dynamic power is the power dissipated during the transition of any input signal from low to high or high to low. During this time certain amount of current is drawn from the supply…
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Cypress Semiconductor Interview Question Bank continued from Part 1… Q : What is LFSR? Name some industry applications of it. A : LFSR stands for Linear Feedback Shift Register in which the input bit is driven by a linear function of overall value of the shift register. In industry, it finds applications in encryption and decryption…
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Taking forward our journey of Interview Question Banks, the next stop is Cypress Semiconductor. Based in United States of America, it is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. To help you prepare for Cypress and similar companies in similar domain, let’s look at some of the interview questions asked in recent times… Q : What do…
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Micromax Informatics Interview Question Bank continued from Part 1… Q : Which among BJT and MOSFET has higher gain and why? A : The current in BJT is exponentially dependent on input whereas in MOSFET, it is square law. So, trans-conductance of BJT is higher than that of MOSFET and thus BJT has higher gain than…
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The next stop in our journey of Interview Question Banks is that of Micromax Informatics Limited. It is an Indian consumer electronics & telecommunication firm which was established as IT software company operating in embedded services domain and later entered into mobile handset business. Let’s now look at some of the questions asked in its…
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LG Electronics Interview Question Bank continued from Part 1… Q : What type of communication is used in USART? A : USART (Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) uses half duplex mode of communication. Q : What do you mean by Finite Impulse Response filter? A : FIR filter is a type of filter whose impulse response (i.e….
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The next stop in our journey of Interview Question Banks is that of LG Electronics. To help you in your preparation for LG Electronics and similar companies in the same domain, we have collected questions asked in their interviews from various sources at one place. Let’s start with them… Q : What is setup and…
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