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Freescale is creating a smarter, better connected world. Already, there are more than 17 billion Freescale semiconductors at work all over the planet. Youll find them embedded all around you: in automobiles, computer networks, communications infrastructure, office buildings, factories, industrial equipment, tools, mobile phones, home appliances and consumer products that touch every aspect of your daily life. We see a world where intelligence and connectivity are embedded everywhere. Thats the vision of more than 24,000 Freescale employees. Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately-held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2006 sales of $6.4 billion (USD). Pervasive Innovation Freescale may be one of the largest companies that people touch every day, but have never heard of. It has shipped more than 17 billion semiconductors, which can be found in everyday name brands: Motorola cell phones Sony electronics Whirlpool appliances Logitech keyboards and mice Lifefitness cardiovascular and strength training equipment Cisco routers Bose Acoustic Wave radios Trane heating and cooling equipment Mercedes, BMW, Ford, Hyundai and General Motors vehicles

Freescale is a leader in many markets it serves: No. No. No. No. No. 1 1 2 2 4 in in in in in automotive semiconductors Gartner communications processors Gartner overall microcontrollers Gartner digital signal processors Forward Concepts wireless handset radio frequency microprocessors iSuppli

Freescale has design, research and development (R&D), manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. We have seven wholly-owned wafer fabs, two assembly and test sites and a 300-millimeter pilot line and R&D center in Crolles, France, jointly owned with STMicroelectronics and NXP, a newly independent semiconductor company (founded by Philips). Freescale invests $1 billion annually in R&D and has 5,500 patent families.

A New Life After more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Freescale started a new life as a standalone company in July 2004. Since then, under the leadership of Chairman and CEO Michel Mayer, the company has focused on improving financial performance, reenergizing the culture and building a global brand. with regards saket123

FREESCALE PAPER ON 28th FEBRUARY 1. Y=A.C+B.C(bar) the gate implementation was given. How can this circuit is implemented by latch? Ans:- Simple, this is simple 2:1MUX Where A,B are inputs And C is select pin or clock. In Latch if clock is low its maintain output as its previous stage means no change. So if connect output Y to A. then this is implemented by latch. 2. Set up time, hold time se related 1 question. 3. Set up time, hold time was given and some delay in b/w Max freq.=1/(transition delay+setup time) No hold time. 4. NAND circuit was implemented by MOSResponse was asked? 5. Power dissipation=V^2*f*C(load cap) 6. Delay =(1/W by L ratio)*Vth*C(load) 7. Two buffer ckt were given what is the difference b/w them? 8. CMOS inverter main yadi PMOS and NMOS ko interchange ker de to bo buffer bun jata hai. 9. Three ckts of inverter was give in which they asked about power dissipationwith ON time was 40% while off time 60%. A. Simple CMOS inverter. B. Res was connected to VDD and PMOS C. NMOS Connected to VDD and res. So less on ckt was PMOS BECOZ ON TIME WAS 40% SO less power diss compare to C. While in A no res so very less power dissipation.

FREESCALE PAPER ON 17th AUGUST

hi i am rakesh jha one of the student of nit jal.freescale came in my institute and finally 2 are sellected paper totally based on digital switching theory and mos operation n/w and elex. q1.there are xor ckt and and give the wave of i/p with delay find out the delay.plz concentrate some delay in ms some in ns . q2.thevenine ckt(n/W) find voc and Req. q3.two question from clock skew.(concept of hold time ,setuup time and cq) q4.find out the output impendence of ckt(gm1 and gm2 are in series with resistance r1 and r2. q5.find the truth table of combination ckt of pmos and nmos. q6.sequence dector of 1010101 q7.if clock is given i/p is is given in form of 1 0 10 then find waveform of o/p i give one suggestion only study digital and concept of wave drawing. in interview mainly ask mos concept.

FREESCALE Placement Paper on 7thAug2008

The paper was of 90 minutes and had 15 questions each of 10marks. Q1- Design a black box with three ports A,B,C using 5 resistors of 1 ohm each such that RAB=1.5 ohm, RAC=3.5 ohm and RBC=3 ohm. Q2-It was a basic thevenin circuit with three parallel branches containing a current source of 2A current, a resistor of 1 ohm and a battery source of 1V.We were asked to calculate the current in the resistor. Q3-Design a mod-5 counter using JK flip flops with minimum circuitry?
A counter which is reset at the fifth clock pulse is called Mod 5 counter or Divide by 5 counter. The circuit diagram of Mod 5 counter is shown in the figure. This counter contains three JKMS flip-flop.

Logic Diagram:

Truth table:

Clock

Qc

QB

QA

Reset

A 3 bit binary counter is normally counting from 000 to 111. The actual output of a 3 bit binary counter at the fifth clock pulse is 101. A two input NAND gate is used to make a Mod 5 counter. The outputs of the first and third flip flops (QA and QC) are connected to the input of the give NAND gate, and its output is connected to the RESET terminal of the counter, Hence the counter is reset at the fifth clock pulse, which produces the output QC,QB,QA as 000. It is called divide by 5th counter or mod 5 counter.

Q4-Sythesize the function Y= (AB+CD)E using CMOS? Q7-A problem of finding the max frequency with 3 different parts. Each having a different clock skew. Q8-A problem to calculate the propagation delay in a combinational circuit. Q9-A tricky problem on Zener diode with an RC circuit...Had to sketch the voltage waveform across the resistor Q10-Data is coming at a rate of 600mhz and is transmitted at 150mhz.Calculate the size of the FIFO required to avoid the overflow if 200 data bits are coming at a time and no data is received until the previous data is completely transmitted? Q11-A microprocessor has an instruction pattern such that the first 3 instructions take 1 clock cycle each, the fourth one takes 2 and the fifth one takes 3 clock cycles. If 1 clock cycle=10ns. Find the MIPS (million instructions per second) of the microprocessor?

Q12-A problem on dynamic power dissipation based on the input & output waveforms of a sequential circuit. Q13-Input & output waveforms for a circuit were given. Had to design the circuit to satisfy the conditions. Q14-A very easy opamp based problem to calculate the transfer function of the circuit. Q15-A unusual problem again on power dissipation. Given the power dissipated in each stage of the amplifier blocks.. SOLUTIONS Ans-1:From port A connect two 1 ohm resistors in parallel to point D(say). from point D connect a resistor to port B. And from D connect two restors in series to port C. Ans-2: i=1A Ans-3: Used 3 JK flip-flops with just one additional gate. Ans-4: Used 16 transistors. Ans-10: I got 150 bits. Ans-11: 63.5 MIPS

THIS IS MAY B USEFULL FOR THOSE R SERIOUSLY PREPARE FOR FREESCALE FIST INTRODUCTION OF COMPANY--IT IS BASICALLY MANUFATURE AND DESINING COMPANY OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND STARTED 1N YEAR NEARLY 1968 US BASED COMPANY....IT IS DIFFERENT FROM MOTOROLA ...BEFORE PPT I THOUGHT THAT IS A PART OF MOTOROLA......BUT EVERY GUISE THOUGHT IT IS MOLOROLA BUT NOT...MOTOROLA IS BIG COUSTOMER OF FREESCALE..OK IT HAVING 3 ROUND 1-TECH WRITTEN ROUND 2-TECH INTERVIEW 3-HR..

TECH WRITTEN------- DURATION 1.30 HR...AND 15 QUESTION EACH HAS 10 MARKS I THINK CUTUP WAS 50.MARKS... PURLY BADES ON DIGITAL ELECTRONICS SOME OF QUESTION I COLLECTED.. 1) DESIGN OF MODE -5 COUNTER 2)SERIAL IN SERIAL OUT 1101....SHOW D CKT 3)ONE QUESTION BASED ON J K F/F 4)PROBLEM RELATED TO SETUP AND HOLD TIME 5)IMLEMENT (AB+CD)E WITH CMOS BASED ON NETWOR CKT 1) A BOX GIVEN ,,,IN BOX ONE INPUT A AND TWO OUTPUT B AND C....... WITH HTE USE OF SIX 1OHM RESISTER ,,,WE HVE TO SHOW THE EQIVALENT RESISTANCE BETWEEN A-B 1.2 OHM,,,,B-C-2 OHM,,,,

A-C--2.2 OHM,,, 20 ONE QUESTION BASED ON TRANSIENT THEORM OF NETWORK... BASED ON COMMUNICATION BIT N=12,,1/TS=300K,,,FIND THE BANDWITH??? BASED ON ANALOG... OPEMP DB GAIN PROBLEM TECNICAL INTERVIEW..... BASED ON WRITTEN...AND FOCUSED THE PART WHER U DIDN'T PERFORM WELL.... HR ROUND... THEY ALREADY DECEIDED ACCORDING TO TECH WRITTEN AND INTERVIEW .

1. the 2's complement number of 110010 is ans; none of those 2.Truth table of a logic function ans: displays all its input output possibilities 3.The process of varying one signal according to the pattern provided by another signal is ans:modulation 4.The octal equivalant of hexa number 123 is ans:443 Determine how many times the given loop is executed 5.m=3 while (m<18) do {m=m+2;m=m-1} ans:15 6.m=1;a=30;while (m<>1) do {m=m+1;a=a-1;} 7.m=1;a=30;while (e*m-5<a) do {m=m+1;a=a-2} ans:9 in questions 8 to 12 find the values of a and b at the end of the execution of the program segment 8.a=2; b=1; x=1; while(x<=4) do {a=a+b;x=x+1} ans:(5,1)

9.a=1; b=2;x=1 while (x<=5) do {b=a+b;x=x+1;} ans:(1,6) 10.a=0; b=0; x=1; while (x<=4) {a=a+x; b=b-x; x=x+1;} ans:(10,-10) 11.The complexity of bublle sort is0(a),then k equals ans:2 12.In BCD,the decimal number 516 is ans:10101110 13. RS 232 is standards for ans:physical layer 14. which of the following is not true of a DBMS ans:maintain integrity 15.the method of access used for obtaining a record from a tape is ans:sequential 16.Whichof the following is an universal gate ans:nor 17.an ASCII text file containing 500 characters will have size approximately ans:500bytes 18.which of the following is a vector ans;force 19.The lowest attainable temperature ans 0k 20.viscosity is most similar to ans:friciton

21.The elapsed time between the submission of the job and getting the output is ans:seek time 22.the earliest calculating device still in use is ans: abacus 23.Qunatities used to bring fields to standards sixe are ans:pixels 24.the base of a number system is called as ans:radix 25.An 8kb computer will base addresses ----ans:8191 26.Arranging data in a specific form is called ans: sorting 27.A translator which reads an entire programme written in a high level language and converts it into machine language code is ans: interpreter 28.a data hierarchy in assending order is ans:bit-byte -field-record-file-database 29.a computer generated output that lets programmer follow the execution of the program line by line is 30.data items grouped togother for storage form a 31. the most dangerous aspect of computer virusesis their ability to ans: change system memory 32.a distributed data processing configuration in which all activities must pass through an centrally located computer is called a ans: ring network 33.communication circuite that transmit data inboth directions but not at the same time are operating in 34.which of the following is not an application software ans:unix 35.For which of the folowing computer application is real time processing not essential

36.a data structure with one to many relationship is a ans:tree 37. which of the following hardware components is most important to operation of a database management system ans:high speed,large capacity disk 38. computer viruses can spread from one system to another by means of ans:all the above 39. afront end processor is ususally used in ans: multi processing 40.a radioactive material of mass 16 grms in 10 years due to radiation. how many years will it take for the material to attain a mass f1 gm ans:30 41.a block of ice floats on water in a beaker, as the ice melts,the water level in the beaker will ans:remain same 42.if va,vn,vs are velocities of sound in air,water, and steel then, ans:vs>vn>va 43.in usual computer arthemetic, the value of the integer expression 22/5*2+8*2/6 ans:10 44.an acronym for the organisation that publishes programming langauge standards is ans:ANSI

1. Y=A.C+B.C(bar) the gate implementation was given. How can this circuit is implemented by latch? Ans:- Simple, this is simple 2:1MUX Where A,B are inputs And C is select pin or clock. In Latch if clock is low its maintain output as its previous stage means no change. So if connect output Y to A. then this is implemented by latch. 2. Set up time, hold time se related 1 question. 3. Set up time, hold time was given and some delay in b/w Max freq.=1/(transition delay+setup time) No hold time. 4. NAND circuit was implemented by MOSResponse was asked? 5. Power dissipation=V^2*f*C(load cap) 6. Delay =(1/W by L ratio)*Vth*C(load) 7. Two buffer ckt were given what is the difference b/w them? 8. CMOS inverter main yadi PMOS and NMOS ko interchange ker de to bo buffer bun jata hai. 9. Three ckts of inverter was give in which they asked about power dissipationwith ON time was 40% while off time 60%. A. Simple CMOS inverter. B. Res was connected to VDD and PMOS C. NMOS Connected to VDD and res. So less on ckt was PMOS BECOZ ON TIME WAS 40% SO less power diss compare to C. While in A no res so very less power dissipation.

Test Paper :3 Paper Type Test Date Posted By : Technical - Other : 7 August 2008 : Sruthi

FREESCALE PAPER ON 7TH AUGUST,2008

The paper was of 90 minutes and had 15 questions each of 10marks. Q1- Design a black box with three ports A,B,C using 5 resistors of 1 ohm each such that RAB=1.5 ohm, RAC=3.5 ohm and RBC=3 ohm. Q2-It was a basic thevenin circuit with three parallel branches containing a current source of 2A current, a resistor of 1 ohm and a battery source of 1V.We were asked to calculate the current in the resistor. Q3-Design a mod-5 counter using JK flip flops with minimum circuitry? Q4-Sythesize the function Y= (AB+CD)E using CMOS? Q5-A general aptitude question with two parts each of 5marks. (a) Related to some matrix(Could not answer that) (b) Was an easy probability based problem.. Q6-A problem on generating a C-code..Dint attempt it. Q7-A problem of finding the max frequency with 3 different parts. Each having a different clock skew. Q8-A problem to calculate the propagation delay in a combinational circuit. Q9-A tricky problem on Zener diode with an RC circuit...Had to sketch the voltage waveform across the resistor Q10-Data is coming at a rate of 600mhz and is transmitted at 150mhz.Calculate the size of the FIFO required to avoid the overflow if 200 data bits are coming at a time and no data is received until the previous data is completely transmitted? Q11-A microprocessor has an instruction pattern such that the first 3 instructions take 1 clock cycle each, the fourth one takes 2 and the fifth one takes 3 clock cycles. If 1 clock cycle=10ns. Find the MIPS (million instructions per second) of the microprocessor? Q12-A problem on dynamic power dissipation based on the input & output waveforms of a sequential circuit. Q13-Input & output waveforms for a circuit were given. Had to design the circuit to satisfy

the conditions. Q14-A very easy opamp based problem to calculate the transfer function of the circuit. Q15-A unusual problem again on power dissipation. Given the power dissipated in each stage of the amplifier blocks.. SOLUTIONS Ans-1:From port A connect two 1 ohm resistors in parallel to point D(say). from point D connect a resistor to port B. And from D connect two restors in series to port C. Ans-2: i=1A Ans-3: Used 3 JK flip-flops with just one additional gate. Ans-4: Used 16 transistors. Ans-10: I got 150 bits. Ans-11: 63.5 MIPS

FREESCALE PAPER ON 7TH AUGUST,2008

The paper was of 90 minutes and had 15 questions each of 10marks. Q1- Design a black box with three ports A,B,C using 5 resistors of 1 ohm each such that RAB=1.5 ohm, RAC=3.5 ohm and RBC=3 ohm. Q2-It was a basic thevenin circuit with three parallel branches containing a current source of 2A current, a resistor of 1 ohm and a battery source of 1V.We were asked to calculate the current in the resistor. Q3-Design a mod-5 counter using JK flip flops with minimum circuitry?

Q4-Sythesize the function Y= (AB+CD)E using CMOS? Q5-A general aptitude question with two parts each of 5marks. (a) Related to some matrix(Could not answer that) (b) Was an easy probability based problem.. Q6-A problem on generating a C-code..Dint attempt it. Q7-A problem of finding the max frequency with 3 different parts. Each having a different clock skew. Q8-A problem to calculate the propagation delay in a combinational circuit. Q9-A tricky problem on Zener diode with an RC circuit...Had to sketch the voltage waveform across the resistor Q10-Data is coming at a rate of 600mhz and is transmitted at 150mhz.Calculate the size of the FIFO required to avoid the overflow if 200 data bits are coming at a time and no data is received until the previous data is completely transmitted? Q11-A microprocessor has an instruction pattern such that the first 3 instructions take 1 clock cycle each, the fourth one takes 2 and the fifth one takes 3 clock cycles. If 1 clock cycle=10ns. Find the MIPS (million instructions per second) of the microprocessor? Q12-A problem on dynamic power dissipation based on the input & output waveforms of a sequential circuit. Q13-Input & output waveforms for a circuit were given. Had to design the circuit to satisfy the conditions. Q14-A very easy opamp based problem to calculate the transfer function of the circuit. Q15-A unusual problem again on power dissipation. Given the power dissipated in each stage of the amplifier blocks.. SOLUTIONS Ans-1:From port A connect two 1 ohm resistors in parallel to point D(say). from point D connect a resistor to port B. And from D connect two restors in series to port C. Ans-2: i=1A Ans-3: Used 3 JK flip-flops with just one additional gate. Ans-4: Used 16 transistors. Ans-10: I got 150 bits. Ans-11: 63.5 MIPS

1.

Plz,Plz,Plz..Clear the concepts of set up and hold time terms of digital electronics(3 to 4 questions on this topic alone). Most of the available books contain only their definition and brief introduction but try to go to as much detail as you can.

2. One question on labeling the various ports of NMOS, PMOS or CMOS whose structure will be given there. 3. 1 question on Sequential machine diagram. 4. Question on designing gates using NMOS or CMOS. 5. Question on input and output waveform of NMOS or CMOS circuit.

6. 1 or 2 questions may be asked sometimes from 8085 microprocessor. 7. Ring Counter Question

8. Question on sequence generator. 9. An opamp with input resistance will be given and you will have to find the output of that circuit.

So in the end you must be clear with the concept of digital electronics at least. Interview: In interview they will ask questions from digital electronics 1.what is set up time? 2.what is hold time? 3.Do latches have set up and hold time? And questions from VLSI and semiconductors also. HR interview will just be a formality if you clear technical round.

The paper was of 90 minutes and had 15 questions each of 10marks. Q1- Design a black box with three ports A,B,C using 5 resistors of 1 ohm each such that RAB=1.5 ohm, RAC=3.5 ohm and RBC=3 ohm. Q2-It was a basic thevenin circuit with three parallel branches containing a current source of 2A current, a resistor of 1 ohm and a battery source of 1V.We were asked to calculate the current in the resistor. Q3-Design a mod-5 counter using JK flip flops with minimum circuitry? Q4-Sythesize the function Y= (AB+CD)E using CMOS? Q5-A general aptitude question with two parts each of 5marks. (a) Related to some matrix(Could not answer that) (b) Was an easy probability based problem.. Q6-A problem on generating a C-code..Dint attempt it. Q7-A problem of finding the max frequency with 3 different parts. Each having a different clock skew. Q8-A problem to calculate the propagation delay in a combinational circuit. Q9-A tricky problem on Zener diode with an RC circuit...Had to sketch the voltage waveform across the resistor Q10-Data is coming at a rate of 600mhz and is transmitted at 150mhz.Calculate the size of the FIFO required to avoid the overflow if 200 data bits are coming at a time and no data is received until the previous data is completely transmitted? Q11-A microprocessor has an instruction pattern such that the first 3 instructions take 1 clock cycle each, the fourth one takes 2 and the fifth one takes 3 clock cycles. If 1 clock cycle=10ns. Find the MIPS (million instructions per second) of the microprocessor? Q12-A problem on dynamic power dissipation based on the input & output waveforms of a sequential circuit. Q13-Input & output waveforms for a circuit were given. Had to design the circuit to satisfy the conditions. Q14-A very easy opamp based problem to calculate the transfer function of the circuit. Q15-A unusual problem again on power dissipation. Given the power dissipated in each stage of the amplifier blocks.. SOLUTIONS Ans-1:From port A connect two 1 ohm resistors in parallel to point D(say). from point D connect a resistor to port B. And from D connect two restors in series to port C. Ans-2: i=1A Ans-3: Used 3 JK flip-flops with just one additional gate. Ans-4: Used 16 transistors. Ans-10: I got 150 bits. Ans-11: 63.5 MIPS

Paper: FreeScalePlacement Paper 7th AUG 2008(Aptitude)

Q1- Design a black box with three ports A,B,C using 5 resistors of 1 ohm each such that RAB=1.5 ohm, RAC=3.5 ohm and RBC=3 ohm.

Q2-It was a basic thevenin circuit with three parallel branches containing a current source of 2A current, a resistor of 1 ohm and a battery source of 1V.We were asked to calculate the current in the resistor.

Q3-Design a mod-5 counter using JK flip flops with minimum circuitry?

Q4-Sythesize the function Y= (AB+CD)E using CMOS?

Q5-A general aptitude question with two parts each of 5marks. (a) Related to some matrix(Could not answer that) (b) Was an easy probability based problem..

Q6-A problem on generating a C-code..Dint attempt it.

Q7-A problem of finding the max frequency with 3 different parts. Each having a different clock skew.

Q8-A problem to calculate the propagation delay in a combinational circuit.

Q9-A tricky problem on Zener diode with an RC circuit...Had to sketch the voltage waveform across the resistor

Q10-Data is coming at a rate of 600mhz and is transmitted at 150mhz.Calculate the size of the FIFO required to avoid the overflow if 200 data bits are coming at a time and no data is received until the previous data is completely transmitted?

Q11-A microprocessor has an instruction pattern such that the first 3 instructions take 1 clock cycle each, the fourth one takes 2 and the fifth one takes 3 clock cycles. If 1 clock cycle=10ns. Find the MIPS (million instructions per second) of the microprocessor?

Q12-A problem on dynamic power dissipation based on the input & output waveforms of a sequential circuit.

Q13-Input & output waveforms for a circuit were given. Had to design the circuit to satisfy the conditions.

Q14-A very easy opamp based problem to calculate the transfer function of the circuit.

Q15-A unusual problem again on power dissipation. Given the power dissipated in each stage of the amplifier blocks..

Tell me about your Projects and give a general resume walk through.

First, I was called by the Team manager and was asked basic questions on Analog Blocks' functionality like ADC, DAC and LDO.

After that they called me for F2F interview in which they asked me basics of MOS operation, interviewer had drawn some circuits like Level-Shifter and asked me to find what makes the circuitry cause leakage or not working.

Interview Questions
Protocol of Low Power design Correction in the circuit drawn.

How would you weight Boeing 747? What is the difference between combinational and sequential logic? Why does any chip/IC heat up? Digital Design Questions like Set up and hold time calculation and Freq calculation , Async FIFO Design are asked from every interview person. System verilog Testbench structure are also asked and play vital role in hiring an employee max freq of operation of a Digital ckt if set up and hold time are know to you. Clock Domain crossing related questions