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Core ECE Internship Prep

This document provides a timeline and guidance for internship preparation over a 2 month period from August to October. It recommends focusing on building a professional resume, and preparing for technical interviews with frequent internship recruiters like Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and Samsung. The preparation advice covers topics like analog and digital circuits, Verilog, computer architecture, and miscellaneous concepts. It also provides sample interview questions and emphasizes practicing communication during interviews, while remaining curious but calm. The overall message is to thoroughly learn fundamentals and believe in the preparation process.

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Core ECE Internship Prep

This document provides a timeline and guidance for internship preparation over a 2 month period from August to October. It recommends focusing on building a professional resume, and preparing for technical interviews with frequent internship recruiters like Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and Samsung. The preparation advice covers topics like analog and digital circuits, Verilog, computer architecture, and miscellaneous concepts. It also provides sample interview questions and emphasizes practicing communication during interviews, while remaining curious but calm. The overall message is to thoroughly learn fundamentals and believe in the preparation process.

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Core ECE

Internship prep
Industry and Research based Internships- 2021
Timeline
Time for prep :
2 months are enough

Mid August-
August October
June- 1-15
July ● Build a concise yet professional resume
Today ● Be focussed on what you want to
pursue- Industry or Academia
● Prepare well
● Be confident
Companies to target
Frequent visitors: Less Frequent visitors:
● Texas Instruments ● Google Hardware
● Qualcomm ● Nvidia Hardware
● Samsung Semiconductor ● Analog Devices (Mostly EE)
Company wise format
❖ Google Hardware
➢ Resume based selection in round 1
➢ 2 technical interviews, 1 hour each.
➢ 1st interview - Analog, Verilog output prediction
➢ 2nd interview - Digital, C++/Python coding, Verilog, Resume based questioning.
➢ A brief HR round to finish it up
❖ Texas Instrument
➢ Test: 3 sections. Analog (20 ques, 45 min), Digital (20 ques, 45 min) and aptitude (20 ques, 30
min)
➢ Marking: +1, -0.5
➢ 8-10 questions usually sufficient for interviews in respective profiles
➢ Multiple round interview. RC related questions extensively asked
❖ Qualcomm
➢ Test in round 1 containing basic digital,analog,basic programming(OOPS and data
structures),verilog based questions and aptitude
➢ Round 2 is a resume based interview,basic digital,analog and verilog questions also
included(depending on resume)
➢ Round 3 is a basic HR round to wrap things up
❖ Nvidia Graphics
What to prepare- Analog

• Network Theory Concepts: RC, RL, LC and RLC circuits with voltage source and current
source. (Problems to start)
• Finding poles and zeros etc. and frequency response. (Basic concepts) Links: [1], [2]
• Develop intuitive understanding to plot direct response w/o solving it using Laplace. (most
frequently asked in TI interviews).

• Op-AMP Basics and Circuit Topology for different Applications


• Op-Amp Applications and Oscillator lectures. (Resources)
• Concept of negative feedback and deciding signs of Op-Amp for the same. [Video Links]
• For studying Analog basics:
• Topics: Single-Stage Amplifiers, Cascaded Topologies, Differential Amplifiers, Current
Mirrors, Frequency Response of Amplifiers (concept of miller capacitance etc.) and
Feedback.
• Book: Design of CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits. [Link] Chapter: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,10,12
• Or Consider Lectures by Shanti Pavan. [Videos Link]
• Do problems after readings the topics. [Link]

• Must Do problem Sets [Link]


• Do the problems uploaded by seniors in their feedbacks in Channeli. [1] (Check
others too).
What to prepare- Digital
• Digital Logic Design (Morris Mano) [Book] Chapter: 1 to 6
• Moore and Mealy Machine Design for different type of problems. (Logical Design as well as Verilog
Implementation) (Imp).
• Digital Integrated Circuit (Rabaey) [Book] Chapter: 1 and 5 (CMOS Inverter)
• Static Timings Analysis. Video links: [1], [2]. Questions: [1], [2].
• Miscellaneous Digital Ques (Must do and solve it thoroughly): [1]
• SRAM and DRAM Basics. [Link]
• Basic of 555 Timer.
• Quick go through of Digital CMOS circuits (Razavi chapter 15)
What to prepare - Verilog
• Go through videos 1-24 of NPTEL series : [1]
• For Tests: Do these ques: [1]
• Normal Syntax Practice: [1], [2]
• For interviews: basic syntax is asked and design flow for Moore and
Mealy Machine in Verilog. Elaborated Design for simple latches mith be
asked.
What to prepare - Computer Architecture

• Follow topics written below from your course slides or [Slide link].
• CPU Performance ques, Amdahl’s law, Memory Hierarchy, Assembly
language basic, MIPS instructions, Difference between multi-cycle,
single cycle and pipelined architecture. (Basic info is enough)
• Addressing mode(Imp)
• Basic understanding of 8085 and 8086 architecture.
• Read about cache thoroughly. (Most Imp)
Miscellaneous
• Basic of semiconductor theory. (Few ques only in Samsung
Semiconductor Analog test).
• Some programming i/p and o/p ques.
• Feedback (Control system). Already written in analog section.
• Basic signal processing. (Sometimes asked in TI).
Interviews
• Prepare the topics well and try to clear tests for most of the companies.
• Consult regularly with immediate seniors of test and interview patterns
over the recent years.
• For interviews, you need to express yourself with the knowledge you
have.
• Prepare resume thoroughly. You should know every spec and details of
the projects.
• It’s ok not to know the answer of any ques. But speak what you are
thinking. Interviewer will help.
• Be curious but don’t show yourself over-excited. Talk normally.
• If you know the solution of a problem, describe it such that you are
solving it lively in front of interviewer.
• HR round is not an eliminator, but prepare the general HR ques
asked to immediate seniors in Core ECE companies interviews.
General Advice

Try to do work with a professor in the summers to have some experience. It is


not mandatory to do it but preferable if you do.

● Spark
● Project under any professor
● Certified Courses
“Believe in the process and
Get your basics right,
You will be able to make it.
Best of Luck!

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