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Had to determine how a state machine would function given a few rules, such as "it goes from blue to green to red to blue to green" and stuff like that. Basically just create states for each result and make a one-hot from it using flip-flops.
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Hardware Engineer I Intern

Interviewed at National Instruments

3.7★
Aug 8, 2014

Had to determine how a state machine would function given a few rules, such as "it goes from blue to green to red to blue to green" and stuff like that. Basically just create states for each result and make a one-hot from it using flip-flops.

First phone interview: - What is the difference between the cache memory and the global memory? - What does an FPGA cell contain? - What kind of hard blocks can you find in an FPGA? - What does a DSP core contain? - What will be the maximum size of a multiplexer if I have a 6 inputs lookup table? - How many lookup tables do I need to build a 64 inputs multiplexer? - What is a linking list? - What is the polymorphism? - What do you know about threads? - On linux, which command do you have to write to copy a full folder containing other folders and files? - You need to write a compiler, which language would you use?
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FPGA/Hardware Engineer

Interviewed at Maxeler Technologies

3.6★
Apr 25, 2015

First phone interview: - What is the difference between the cache memory and the global memory? - What does an FPGA cell contain? - What kind of hard blocks can you find in an FPGA? - What does a DSP core contain? - What will be the maximum size of a multiplexer if I have a 6 inputs lookup table? - How many lookup tables do I need to build a 64 inputs multiplexer? - What is a linking list? - What is the polymorphism? - What do you know about threads? - On linux, which command do you have to write to copy a full folder containing other folders and files? - You need to write a compiler, which language would you use?

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