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MESI Protocol FIFO Verilog and condition for full and empty Build FSM for 20 story building elevator (you have control in elevator and controls on every floor and discuss what floors take priority Build a clock divider to take 2MHz signal to 1MHz Build a 4:1 MUX using behavioral verilog than structural verilog Tell me how many bits per tag, offset, and addr based on cache structure (1MB 8 way associative) Tell me 5 stage pipeline Tell me about different hazards and explain types of data hazards how would you go beyond 5 stage pipeline
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Verification Engineer

Interviewed at Intel Corporation

3.9★
May 11, 2026

MESI Protocol FIFO Verilog and condition for full and empty Build FSM for 20 story building elevator (you have control in elevator and controls on every floor and discuss what floors take priority Build a clock divider to take 2MHz signal to 1MHz Build a 4:1 MUX using behavioral verilog than structural verilog Tell me how many bits per tag, offset, and addr based on cache structure (1MB 8 way associative) Tell me 5 stage pipeline Tell me about different hazards and explain types of data hazards how would you go beyond 5 stage pipeline

1. Talk about your work experiences and skills? 2. Mention two substantial technical challenges/great achievements and how you resolved them? 3. What is a singleton and how you create it and what are examples in UVM? 4. 10 CPU stages pipeline each of delay 10 ns, how long does it take to run 100 instructions? 5. Write a C code to know if the machine is big endian or little endian? 6. A Test failed and the designer came back and told you to change something to get the test work, you did that and the test case passed! Can you elaborate on this mentioning what the issue was and how to fix it. 8. you have numbers from 1 to 100 put in an array, you put the numbers in the array but the array length was less than 100, so it is missing a number. The array is shuffled and not sorted. Sketch an algorithm to get that number and mention its big O for performance and capacity? 9. You have an unsorted array, you want to find an 3 elements in the array in which their sum is equal to a specific number? 10. Write Verilog code for posedge/negedge detector? 11. Deep SystemVerilog assertions questions 12. Deep UVM questions (monitors with multiple analysis ports connections to scoreboard, how to collect input stimuli from the DUT (via monitor or sequence/sequencer, difference between p_sequencer/m_sequencer, UVM vertical and horizontal reuse, write code for TRANSLATION sequence, How to enable UVM acceleration in Emulation, etc.) 13. Deep SystemVerilog constrained random questions 14. Deep code optimizations, performance, capacity questions 15. Deep Emulation questions 16, Verify an arbiter using assertions 17. Sketch an algorithm to get the greatest K of an unsorted array. What is the BiG-O notation? 18. Write code to rotate a matrix. What is the BiG-O notation? 19. Power and clock optimizations questions. 20. Deep verification questions 21. UVM Register Layer Very deep questions
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Senior ASIC Verification Engineer

Interviewed at Apple

4.1★
Oct 18, 2019

1. Talk about your work experiences and skills? 2. Mention two substantial technical challenges/great achievements and how you resolved them? 3. What is a singleton and how you create it and what are examples in UVM? 4. 10 CPU stages pipeline each of delay 10 ns, how long does it take to run 100 instructions? 5. Write a C code to know if the machine is big endian or little endian? 6. A Test failed and the designer came back and told you to change something to get the test work, you did that and the test case passed! Can you elaborate on this mentioning what the issue was and how to fix it. 8. you have numbers from 1 to 100 put in an array, you put the numbers in the array but the array length was less than 100, so it is missing a number. The array is shuffled and not sorted. Sketch an algorithm to get that number and mention its big O for performance and capacity? 9. You have an unsorted array, you want to find an 3 elements in the array in which their sum is equal to a specific number? 10. Write Verilog code for posedge/negedge detector? 11. Deep SystemVerilog assertions questions 12. Deep UVM questions (monitors with multiple analysis ports connections to scoreboard, how to collect input stimuli from the DUT (via monitor or sequence/sequencer, difference between p_sequencer/m_sequencer, UVM vertical and horizontal reuse, write code for TRANSLATION sequence, How to enable UVM acceleration in Emulation, etc.) 13. Deep SystemVerilog constrained random questions 14. Deep code optimizations, performance, capacity questions 15. Deep Emulation questions 16, Verify an arbiter using assertions 17. Sketch an algorithm to get the greatest K of an unsorted array. What is the BiG-O notation? 18. Write code to rotate a matrix. What is the BiG-O notation? 19. Power and clock optimizations questions. 20. Deep verification questions 21. UVM Register Layer Very deep questions

For the first screening round, all questions were based on out-of-order execution CPU. For the final interview, In 1st round, I was asked questions on out-of-order execution CPU 2nd round on cache and virtual memory 3rd round had one coding question based on queues and cache-related questions
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CPU Verification Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Apple

4.1★
Oct 4, 2022

For the first screening round, all questions were based on out-of-order execution CPU. For the final interview, In 1st round, I was asked questions on out-of-order execution CPU 2nd round on cache and virtual memory 3rd round had one coding question based on queues and cache-related questions

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