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Branch:
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Placement Session:
2022-2023
Offer obtained:
FTE
Description of role:
Design and Verification of FPGAs
Job location:
Hyderabad
Eligible Branches:
BTech & MTech: ECE, EEE
Eligibility Criteria:
CG cutoff: >6
10th and 12th cutoff: >60%
Selection Procedure:
Round 1 - OT
Round 2 - Technical interview
Description of Online test:
40 MCQs in 1 Hour.
Questions were from the basics of electrical engineering subjects. (Digital Electronics, Analog Electronics, BEE, Circuit Theory, etc)
Description of Technical Interview:
Technical interview was like a rapid fire. Questions were asked from basics of digital electronics, verilog. (Their team works on design and verification of FPGAs, so the whole interview is focused mostly on FPGAs)
Here are some of the questions:
What do you know about FPGAs and where they are used?
Compare FPGAs and ASICs.
Have you worked on any FPGA projects?
Have you designed and soldered any PCBs?
Name some parameters from STA (static timing analysis).
Describe setup time and hold time.
What are slack and skew?
What happens when the above constraints are not met?
Brief questions on metastability.
Questions on Johnson counter.
Write a verilog code to implement a 4:1 mux.
Write a verilog code to implement a 8:1 mux
using the 4:1 mux module.
Describe a situation where you would use a non-blocking assignment.
Some questions from projects I did.
Description of HR Round:
No HR round
Preparation Strategy:
There is no ideal preparation strategy. You can start your preparation 3-4 months before the placement or internship session. If you are truly into hardware, you just need to ace these subjects: Digital Electronics, Analog electronics, Microprocessors, Verilog.
Do not neglect coding even if you're running after a hardware job. Practice some basic DSA questions regularly in leetcode. Also, it comes handy if you are good at OOPS, DBMS, Networking.
Before any interview, practice some questions in hdlbits website. It boosts your confidence.
Resources:
Textbook for Digital Electronics - Morris Mano
Analog Electronics - Neso Academy YouTube
Digital Electronics questions - http://only-vlsi.blogspot.in/2009/01/digital-design-interview-questions.html
VLSI questions - http://vlsichip.blogspot.in/
FPGA - https://nandland.com/fpga-101/
For verilog, go through Samir Pailnitkar and some YouTube videos.
Additional info for our viewers:
Having projects and internships definitely helps you get some insight of how the semiconductor industry is. Try hard to get an internship in 3rd year. Its fine if you don't have any internship. Just be ready with some good projects in hand. Take guidance from your seniors and friends who are in the same domain.
If you fail an interview, there is one thing I want to say,
"DO NOT GIVE UP!!!"