What is floorplanning, partitioning, etc.
Physical Design Interview Questions
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Phone screening 1. Questions about previous work experiences, digital circuit/layout design. 1:1 Technical interviews 1. RC circuits. Response to step input signal. 2. Transistor sizing for better setup/hold times. 3. Layout design of NAND3/NOR3 gates in different styles 4. Elmore delay of complex gates. 5. Standard cell library architecture choices and tradeoffs 6. Physical verification of standard cell libraries 7. DFM/DFD questions 8. Perl/Tcl and EDA tool related questions
what are the component of PLL uncertainties ? How would design datapath that cross clock domain?
Most questions were based on STA, timing and some based on PERL.
Explain Semi custom flow. STA. Layout verification related.
A few basic questions on Digital and wireless communications, estimation theory, random processes etc. Mostly questions based on work I had done before.
Basic pd questions, logical thinking
Flow of current in a layout ( given randomly by the interviewer)
Layout of an inverter, Verilog coding for a state machine, physical design flow
layout related questions, and generic cmos question
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