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Qualcomm
DSP Firmware Engineer (Wireless Modem) was asked...6 January 2010

Swap two numbers without using a temporary variable

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x = 10 y = 5 x = x+y // x = 15, y =5 y = x-y // x = 15 , y = 10 x = x-y // x = 15 - 10 = 5 , y = 10 another way, x = x^y y = x^y x = x^y Less

Shift register.

a = a ^ b; b = a ^ b; a = a ^ b;

Huawei Technologies

The interviewer focused on the wireless architectures for technical.

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Reviewed before my scheduled interview about different wireless architecture.

What do you mean about wireless architecture? Is it the 2G 3G 4G architectures?

Apple

You have access to two ports on the RF circuit of a mobile device, one port is at the antenna one at a 50 ohm resistor. Which port will you connect to test the circuit. why describe the advantage and disadvantage of each case.

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We connect the testing circuit to the antenna. Resistor is the load

We connect the testing circuit to the antenna. Resistor is the load

Qualcomm

Several questions on statistics, signal processing, communications. Mostly fundamental knowledge, not specific to any standard. Example... need to build a Gaussian random number generator, but the chip only supports uniform distribution. How do I solve this?

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Get twelve uniformly distributed random variables and add them, the resulting random variable will be distributed close to Gaussian - says central limit theorem. Less

The answer can be obtained by thinking along the lines of box-muller transformations. Less

Huawei Technologies

explain OSI model

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I drew the OSI model and explained each layer

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Apple

Issues on 2.4GHz for WiFi and other wireless protocols

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Check on Channel, CCA, Dynamic Channel Selection algorithms

2.4GHz is a shared band b/w WLAN, Bluetooth and Cellular. Coex and Antenna sharing is a challenge. CCA, Channel selection are part of WLAN protocol. They are effective in 5 GHz band as well. Less

Von Technologies

What 802.11 2.4ghz channels are non overlapping?

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1,6 and 11

1, 6 & 11

Qualcomm

qtns abt OFDM, qtns abt cyclic prefix, qtns abt wideband channel, qtns abt block convolution: overlap save

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These qtns where to test the DSP, Communication Theory background.

Qualcomm

When you get higher throughput: while going at 5mph and while going at 50 mph? And Why?

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high mobility communication is more difficult.

You will get higher a throughput while going at 5mph. Higher speeds indicates that the RF channel conditions such as delay and Doppler spread are changing at fast rate and its a fast fading channel. It is difficult to achieve equalization in such situation. Hence the modulation scheme can be shot down to, say QPSK(2 bits/symbol) from maybe 16QAM(4 bits/symbol) to provide a more robust transmission. This brings down the user throughput. Less

Zivaro

Why do you want to work at GTRI,.

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I've learned it was the most proactive advanced technology company in the U.S.

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