Physical Design Engineer Interview Questions

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Tell me about yourself and work experience? Explain ASIC flow? What is Scan chain insertion? USe? What is scan chain reordering? Why macros are placed preferably at boundary and not at centre? What all physical only cells you cam across ? Explain? Checks before placement? How do you fix timing at Place? Difference between CCD and CTS? What is HFNS? Why it is not done at syn? Aim of CTS? What happens in route? What are NDR ? Explain side flows? Types of placement blockages? What is derate? what is LVS? what is FEV? Kind of buffers used for CTS? How do you select them?
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ASIC Physical Design Engineer II

Interviewed at SignOff Semiconductors

4
Jul 14, 2020

Tell me about yourself and work experience? Explain ASIC flow? What is Scan chain insertion? USe? What is scan chain reordering? Why macros are placed preferably at boundary and not at centre? What all physical only cells you cam across ? Explain? Checks before placement? How do you fix timing at Place? Difference between CCD and CTS? What is HFNS? Why it is not done at syn? Aim of CTS? What happens in route? What are NDR ? Explain side flows? Types of placement blockages? What is derate? what is LVS? what is FEV? Kind of buffers used for CTS? How do you select them?

why did you quit your job ? i quit my job and was my personal decision . interviewer was too curious to know why what etc. Seemed he was more upset more than me and worried i quit my job after 10 years. I told him i just needed a change and i already have a offer. It did not make him happy still.
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Physical Design Engineer

Interviewed at MediaTek

3.8
Feb 11, 2014

why did you quit your job ? i quit my job and was my personal decision . interviewer was too curious to know why what etc. Seemed he was more upset more than me and worried i quit my job after 10 years. I told him i just needed a change and i already have a offer. It did not make him happy still.

Had three rounds of interview on the same day. I was given the truth table and asked to write out the reduced boolean expression for it. had given a timing path and asked to find the arrival time, required time and slack.
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Physical Design Engineer

Interviewed at IBM

3.9
Apr 7, 2022

Had three rounds of interview on the same day. I was given the truth table and asked to write out the reduced boolean expression for it. had given a timing path and asked to find the arrival time, required time and slack.

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