Thirty questions in five lessons. Each has the field table used throughout this section: what the interviewer is testing, a bad answer, a better one, a strong one (a 4 on the rubric), likely follow-ups, the common trap, the evidence to cite and where the course teaches it. Answers follow the Assumption, Mechanism, Trade-off, Evidence habit from the answer framework, and the strong answers carry numbers where numbers help.
Lesson | After it you can... |
|---|---|
Answer six questions on STA, setup and hold, slack, skew, CRPR and half-cycle paths. | |
Answer six questions on exceptions, generated clocks, I/O delays and case analysis. | |
Answer six questions on corners, temperature inversion, OCV methods, pruning and margins. | |
Answer six questions on crosstalk, noise, closure order, hold limits and useful skew. | |
Answer six questions on coverage, mismatches, summaries, packages and waivers. |
Practise by covering the better and strong answers, speaking for two minutes, then scoring yourself against the rubric.
As recognition training: they are plausible sentences candidates really say. Learn to hear them in your own speech and replace them with mechanism.