SoC / Embedded Hardware · Advanced

SoC Peripheral Subsystem

Integrate an APB decoder, response mux, reset controller, GPIO, timer, UART registers and interrupt aggregation into one reusable subsystem.

Key skills

Implementation plan

• Start with a memory map, interfaces and ownership of each transaction path.
• Implement and verify blocks independently before subsystem integration.
• Exercise software-visible reset/status/error behavior and bus backpressure.
• Finish with an end-to-end firmware or transaction-level demonstration.

Verification plan

• Create a self-checking reference for the expected behavior before optimizing the RTL.
• Test reset and initialization, nominal operation, boundary conditions and back-to-back activity.
• Inject stalls, invalid requests or other stress cases when the interface permits them.
• Keep regression results, waveforms and failure notes so the project demonstrates debugging as well as coding.

Suggested deliverables

• RTL subsystem
• register map
• self-checking tests
• integration diagram

What to discuss in an interview

• The architecture you chose and the alternatives you rejected.
• The hardest bug or corner case and how you found it.
• How you verified correctness beyond one successful waveform.
• Timing, area, latency, coverage or protocol trade-offs relevant to the project.