RF and radio engineering interview questions
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- What’s a PCB? Printed Circuit Board.
- Name some band definitions. L-Band - 1-2 GHz, S-Band - 2-4 GHz, C-Band - 4-8 GHz, X-Band - 8-12 GHz, Ku-Band - 12-18 GHz.
- What’s the definition of gain? The signal going into the device is smaller than the signal going out.
- What’s a definition of an amplifier? It’s a device that exhibits gain.
- Insertion loss? The signal going in is greater than the signal that’s coming out.
- Thermal impedance? A measure of how hot the device gets with varying electrical input.
- What’s the relation between dB and change of signal? +3 dB is 2 times bigger, +10 dB is 10 times bigger.
- What’s an octave? The bandwidth characterized by higher band being twice as much as lower band (100-200 MHz).
- What’s a decade? A bandwidth, where the higher band is 10x the lower band (100 MHz - 1 GHz).
- Skin effect? The signal is reported on the surface of the object, but not inside, e.g. a solid brick wall.
- VSWR? Voltage Standing Wave Ratio. The numeric representation of the device leak, written like X:1 where X is greater when the leak is greater and 1:1 is the absolute no-leakage VSWR.
- Describe an impedance matching circuit. A circuit capable of changing the impedance with different values for incoming and outgoing impedance.
- Describe circular polarization. The signal travels both vertically and horizontally.
- What’s the job of the amplifier? To increase the incoming signal.
- What is noise figure? The level of noise that a low-noise amplifier (LNA) is capable of discriminating.
- What’s a transfer curve? It is a graph of the output power versus the input power of an amplifier.
- What’s the 911 point? The point where the input power results in flames on the other end.
- What’s saturation point? The point where the amplifier loses its linearity of the transfer curve.
- What does balanced amplifier consist of? Two amplifiers stuck together.
- What is the filters function? To filter out all the unwanted radio signals.
- What filter types are there? Low-pass (all frequencies below are allowed to pass in), high-pass, bandpass (all frequencies of a given bandwidth are allowed) and band-reject.
- What are saw filters used for? Very low frequency filtering.
- What are mixers used for? To change the frequency of the signal.
- What’s a superheterodyne receiver? It’s a receiver that uses two mixers in a row.
- Describe VCO. Voltage-controlled oscillators change the frequency of the produced sine wave depending on the voltage they receive.
- Who is responsible for PLLs? Phase-locked loops are done by synthesizer, that samples the sine wave and if it’s not good enough, changes it.
Electrical engineer interview questions
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- What types of CMOS memories have you designed? What were their size? Speed? Configuration Process technology?
- What work have you done on full chip Clock and Power distribution? What process technology and budgets were used?
- What types of I/O have you designed? What were their size? Speed? Configuration? Voltage requirements? Process technology? What package was used and how did you model the package/system? What parasitic effects were considered?
- What types of high speed CMOS circuits have you designed?
- What transistor level design tools are you proficient with? What types of designs were they used on?
- What products have you designed which have entered high volume production?
- What was your role in the silicon evaluation/product ramp? What tools did you use?
- If not into production, how far did you follow the design and why did not you see it into production?
Electronic engineer interview questions
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- What is D-FF?
- What is the basic difference between Latches and Flip flops?
- What is a multiplexer?
- How can you convert an SR Flip-flop to a JK Flip-flop?
- How can you convert an JK Flip-flop to a D Flip-flop?
- What is Race-around problem? How can you rectify it?
- Which semiconductor device is used as a voltage regulator and why?
- Explain an ideal voltage source?
- Explain zener breakdown and avalanche breakdown?
- What are the different types of filters?
- What is the need of filtering ideal response of filters and actual response of filters?
- What is sampling theorem?
- What is impulse response?
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of FIR filters compared to IIR counterparts.
- What is CMRR?
- Explain half-duplex and full-duplex communication?
- Which range of signals is used for terrestrial transmission?
- Why is there need for modulation?
- Which type of modulation is used in TV transmission?
- Why we use vestigial side band (VSB-C3F) transmission for picture?
- When transmitting digital signals is it necessary to transmit some harmonics in addition to fundamental frequency?
- For asynchronous transmission, is it necessary to supply some synchronizing pulses additionally or to supply or to supply start and stop bit?
- BPFSK is more efficient than BFSK in presence of noise. Why?
- What is meant by pre-emphasis and de-emphasis?
- Explain 3 dB cutoff frequency? Why is it 3 dB, not 1 dB?
- Explain ASCII, EBCDIC?
