Hi Friends,

This is BAPU M HINGE from v14he7 batch. I got placed in CAVIUM NETWORKS.

I am very thankful to my parents for their support and believe. I am very thankful
to Raju sir, for giving me such a great platform as a Vector. i am also thankful to
vector placement team that they have given me such a wonderful opportunity .

Since I got placed on my knowledge of Assembly language and C programming So i am

very thankful Shashank sir and Samir sir for their excellent teaching. I am
thankful to all my vector friends who helped me a lot in every situation.

Also I am thankful to Varalaxmi mam and All senior LC's for their support.

Finally I would like to share my interview experience.

The entire procedure was having 1 written and 2 technical + 1 conference + 1 H.R.
rounds.

1. written test->

It was of descriptive type. total 16 questions, are some like predict the output of
the given programs(little tricky) and justify with proper reasons. Some of them
were to write a program, all mixed in c and linux. And 1 question was on ARM
programming related.

Some questions those were i can remember now.

1)Enum related q. O/p was given, u needed to write two initializations of enum to
start it from -1.

2)Pointer address subtraction. And predict the o/p, justify reason for o/p.

3) code...

main()

char *ptr1,*ptr2,*ptr3;

ptr1=malloc(20);

free(ptr1);

ptr2=malloc(20);

free(ptr1) /// freeing ptr1 which is already freed.

ptr3=malloc(20);

free(ptr1);

what will happen with above code snippet...? Will ptr2 and ptr3 get the same memory
allocated for ptr1...?

4) create ur own variable type, which should able to save the value of 128 bytes.
5) write down a program to add two variables of above type (u created).

6) one question was like---> they have given a application like locking and
unlocking mechanism related to semaphore And discuss the core
type(single,dual,quad) required to run the application.

7) consider a processor having only one instruction.

ex --->> sbn A,B, C

[A]=[A]-[B] ....////if result is negative PC will jump to location 'C'.

Now move the content of [X] to [Y]. //////(Solving this qs made a good impact of
mine in 2 technical rounds.)

2. technical 1->

In technical round they have asked

1)Near about all questions which were I solved in written test and explanation of
that qs.
2)some questions were related to Processors(x85,x86,PIC,ARM, x51).
3)And some were like RISC CISC difference, Pipelining in ARM, Explanation with
Hazards. PC (Adder circuit related to the P.C.), OPCODES decoding in CPU.
4)write down any ISR related program in Embedded C. And explain it.
5) Tell me about Vector and things u have learnt in Vector??

3. technical 2->

This Round is of just tour to Assembly world of (x85,x86,PIC,ARM,x51) processors.

(Since i have mentioned those in Resume)

1)He asked me to do some c programs using Assembly of x86,x51. like Set bit, clear
bit (without using SETB or CLRB type instructions).
2)BCD to HEX.(use assembly instructions of any processors.)
3)Rotate operation in Embedded C.
4) write down any ISR related program.(same question from 1st round).
5) Explain Rotate instructions in 8051.
6) wap to rotate a 64 bit integer by 'n' positions.(both left and right)
7) explain difference between C and Embedded C.
8) And few questions related to Resume.
9)which is ur favorite architecture out off x85,x86,PIC,ARM7,x51 and why?
10)Last qs..--> How Samir sir teaches. (Since interviewer was also the Vector
student). Obviously we
both feels that He is excellent.. :) (once again thanks to Samir sir).

4.Conference round-> this round was also very interesting, since it was also
related to processor families and TCP/IP.

1) Again pipelining in Arm7.

2) Explain Cache Memory and purpose of it.

3) Von Neumann and Harvard architecture. Which is better.??

4) little endian big endian systems. which is better??

5)fragmentation technique in networking.

6)difference between UDP and TCP.

7)convert octal to hexadecimal.

HR-> Two of authority people were walked in and just said the golden words to me,
"WE ARE HERE TO EXPLAIN UR JOB PROFILE".

Two days after being selected i got a call from Cavium for final discussion. It was
again like a technical +HR round, which went for 2hrs. He asked me the questions on
Digital electronics,8086, accelerometer(MEMS),I2C protocol.

That's all my interview experience.

The golden moment was when I saw the package they have offered to me...7.2LPA.

Once again i would like to say thanks to Raju Sir and all vector Team.

Finally, i would like to Say "ALL THE BEST" to all my Vectorian friends.

Also enjoy the teaching by faculty, and practice hard...!! be hopeful always..!

Be always ready for the placements.

Once again thanks a lot to all people I got in Vector and Obviously love u for
doing beyond everything for me.