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  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Path
  • STA Glossary
  • STA Metrics Reference
  • STA Mastery Cheatsheet
  • Timing Paths and Checks16
  • Constraints & SDC Fundamentals20
  • Delay Graph & Path Analysis16
  • Beyond Setup and Hold16
  • Multi-Corner Multi-Mode Signoff16
  • OCV, AOCV, POCV and Variation16
  • Crosstalk and Noise16
  • ECO and Closure16
  • STA Debug Playbook16
  • STA Interview Prep26
    • STA Whiteboard Framework
    • STA Framework Drills
    • Scenario: MMMC Storm
    • Scenario: ECO Under Pressure
    • Scenario: Constraint Ghost
    • STA Interview Q&A Bank
    • STA Interview Q&A Bank (Expanded)
      • Senior Design Review Q&A
      • Rapid-Fire Round
  • Capstone Timing Signoff Lab4
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‹STA Interview Prep
  1. Topics
  2. Static Timing Analysis
  3. STA Interview Prep
  4. STA Interview Q&A Bank (Expanded)

Part 10 · Interview Prep · All levels

STA Interview Q&A Bank (Expanded)

Senior design-review questions and a twenty-question rapid-fire round for static timing interviews.

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The core bank covers the standard questions. This expanded bank has two parts: six senior design-review questions, where you are asked to challenge a plan rather than recall a fact, and a rapid-fire round of twenty one-line questions for speed.

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Senior Design Review Q&A

Challenge a signoff plan and propose a better one with numbers.

Rapid-Fire Round

Answer twenty short questions in about a minute each pair.

Check yourself How do design-review questions differ from the core bank?

They give you a plan or a decision and ask you to find what is wrong with it; the strong answers push back with evidence and offer an alternative.

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  • STA Whiteboard Framework
  • STA Framework Drills
  • Scenario: MMMC Storm