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  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Paths
  • Concept Map
  • How to Read the Diagrams
  • Part 0: What Is a Protocol?10
  • Part 1: Timing and Clocking11
  • Part 2: Encoding and Framing12
  • Part 3: Handshakes13
  • Part 4: Flow Control17
  • Part 5: Transactions19
  • Part 6: Concurrency and Performance17
  • Part 7: Ordering13
  • Part 8: Sharing and Arbitration12
  • Part 9: Deadlock and Liveness13
  • Part 10: Reliability and Recovery20
  • Part 11: Bring-Up and Link Management10
  • Part 12: Power8
  • Part 13: Shared State and Coherence9
  • Part 14: Security and Isolation7
  • Part 15: Specifying and Verifying11
  • Part 16: Protocols Dissected17
  • Part 17: Capstones5
  • Part 18: Interview Preparation6
    • The Reasoning Framework
    • Question Bank: Foundation
    • Question Bank: Senior
    • Question Bank: Principal
    • Whiteboard Drills
    • System Design Questions
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‹First Principles of Hardware Protocols
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  2. First Principles of Hardware Protocols
  3. Part 18: Interview Preparation

Part 18 · Interview Preparation · All levels

Part 18: Interview Preparation

Can you explain it under pressure? Answer "why" questions with constraint, options, trade-off and choice.

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    Part 18 answers: Can you explain it under pressure?

    How to answer protocol "why" and "design" questions at every level, with question banks graded by level, whiteboard drills and system-design walk-throughs.

    After this part you can

    • Answer "why" questions with constraint, options, trade-off and choice.

    • Draw handshakes, credits and replay on a whiteboard without notes.

    • Walk through an interconnect design question end to end.

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    18.1

    The Reasoning Framework

    W · Working

    Ready

    18.2

    Question Bank: Foundation

    F · Foundation

    Ready

    18.3

    Question Bank: Senior

    S · Senior

    Ready

    18.4

    Question Bank: Principal

    P · Principal

    Ready

    18.5

    Whiteboard Drills

    W · Working

    Ready

    18.6

    System Design Questions

    P · Principal

    Ready

    Every lesson in this part is ready. Work through them in order: each one sets up the problem the next one solves.

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