Oral Questions


Examples of oral exam questions:

  • state machine
  • how long a clock cycle should be be for a circuit. it should be as long as the critical path of that circuit
  • down asynchronous counter
  • RAID 0 / 1 / 3 / 4
  • draw the counter(circuit and signal)
  • karnaugh map -> draw the circuit
  • the reason why better to take few combination (cheap, fast etc)
  • design a circuit for doing a mux
  • do 3 ways of xoring in Assembly
  • manchestern encoding
  • T flip flop
  • Daisy chaining
  • assembly with jump
  • Static & dynamic memory
  • Write If-then-else statement in assembly
  • Pipeline: advantages and requirements
  • Carry lookahead adder
  • Fan in/out
  • cache memory organization (direct, associative …)
  • Micro instructions to store 18a to BX register