100 Physical Design Interview Questions

Physical Design Fundamentals

1. What is Physical Design in VLSI?
2. Explain the complete Physical Design flow.
3. What are the major stages of Physical Design?
4. What is the difference between Front-End and Back-End Design?
5. What is a netlist?
6. What is a standard cell?
7. What is a technology node?
8. What are PDKs?
9. What is LEF and DEF?
10. What files are required to start Physical Design?

Floorplanning

1. What is floorplanning?
2. What are the objectives of floorplanning?
3. What is core utilization?
4. What is aspect ratio?
5. How do you calculate die size?
6. What are macros?