Embedded Systems Interview Questions
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Tell us what is the need for an infinite loop in embedded systems?

522

Tell me what is the difference between hard real-time and soft real-time os?

523

Please explain what is interrupt latency? How can you reduce it?

523

Tell me what could be the reasons for a system to have gone blank and how would you debug it?

518

Explain how to reduce interrupt latency?

542

Do you know what is priority inversion?

493

Tell me what is rtos?

534

Tell me significance of watchdog timer in embedded systems?

539

Tell me what are the commonly found errors in embedded systems?

538

Please explain can structures be passed to the functions by value?

487

Explain me what is endianness of a system and how do different systems communicate with each other?

531

What are some examples of anti-patterns?

588

You have just been put in charge of a legacy code project with maintainability problems. What kind of things would you look to improve to get the project on a stable footing?

598

Given time, cost, client satisfaction and best practices, how will you prioritize them for a project you are working on? Explain why.

540

Describe a software development life cycle that you've managed.

525


Un-Answered Questions { Embedded Systems }

What is meant by the statement that 8085 is a 8 bit microprocessor?

716


Can a volatile be constant? Like

542


What is an embedded system?

529


What are the widths of data bus (db) and address bus (ab) of 8085?

695


Explain the difference between microcontroller and microprocessor?

656






What is priority inheritance?

492


What is non-maskable interrupts?

732


Explain the uses of timers in embedded system?

464


Please explain what is interrupt latency? How can you reduce it?

523


Explain the Charge Sharing problem while sampling data from a Bus?

2223


Give various factors on which threshold voltage depends.

868


Define microprocessor?

885


In a SRAM layout, which metal layers would you prefer for Word Lines and Bit Lines? Why?

3717


Write a constant time consuming statement lot finding out if a given number is a power of 2?

558


Explain maskable and non maskable interrupts?

698