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ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) Hardware Engineers design and optimize integrated circuits for specific applications, balancing performance, cost, and power efficiency. This role might also be known as IC Design Engineer, Hardware Design Engineer, or Chip Design Engineer in different organizations.

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Technical Topics:

Digital Logic Design

(DLD Interview questions)

  1. Combinational/Sequential circuits, FSMs, pipelining
  2. Arithmetic circuits (adders, multipliers)
  3. Low-power design techniques and clock domain crossing

ASIC Design Flow

(Design Verification Interview Questions)

  1. RTL design, synthesis, STA, and timing closure
  2. Power, performance, area (PPA) optimization
  3. Place and route basics

Computer and SoC Architecture

(SoC Architecture Questions)

  1. ARM architecture, cache hierarchy, buses (AXI, AHB)
  2. Memory controllers, DMA, clock/reset design
  3. SoC peripherals and integration strategies
  4. Verification methodologies (UVM basics, testbenches)

Programming and Scripting