Timing interviews ask many different questions but listen for the same four things: what you assume about clocks and constraints, how the check works on the circuit, what each fix costs, and what evidence would close the issue. This topic teaches that habit, a drawing routine that makes slack computable on a whiteboard, the practice of naming the check before proposing anything, and the rubric your answers will be scored against.
Lesson | After it you can... |
|---|---|
Structure any answer as Assumption, Mechanism, Trade-off, Evidence. | |
Draw a path with edges, arrival and required times, and compute slack. | |
Name the failing check before suggesting a fix. | |
Score an answer from 0 to 4 and say what a 4 sounds like. |
Assumption, Mechanism, Trade-off, Evidence.