Embedded Systems Online Test

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The Embedded Systems online test assesses knowledge of hardware used for embedded systems together with software needed to run it.

The assessment includes work-sample tasks, such as:

  • Understanding how a call stack works in C.
  • Filling the truth table for a digital system made of logic gates.
  • Using semaphores and mutex to coordinate access to resources.

A good embedded systems/software engineer needs to have knowledge of hardware used for embedded systems and devices, and should know how to develop software required to run the system.

Sample public questions

Easy
10 min
fill
Public
AI-resistant
Embedded Systems
Boolean Function
Logic Gates

You have a component which should be used as part of a signal processing device. It has four input pins, one output pin, and three slots where you can insert logical gates:

A diagram showing the logic gates and their connections

The component should have the following truth table:

In Out
A B C D E
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0
0 0 1 0 0
0 0 1 1 0
0 1 0 0 0
0 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1
0 1 1 1 0
1 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 1 1
1 0 1 0 1
1 0 1 1 0
1 1 0 0 0
1 1 0 1 0
1 1 1 0 0
1 1 1 1 0

Choose appropriate logic gates for the component's slots to achieve the required truth table.

1st slot: __ gate

2nd slot: __ gate

3rd slot: __ gate

Hard
3 min
mca
Public
Embedded Systems
Critical Section
Mutex
Semaphore

The following part of the C code distributes packets from the input track to the output track:

void* take_and_put(void *arg)
{
    sem_wait(&semaphore);
    take();
    sem_post(&semaphore);

    pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
    put();
    pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);

    return NULL;
}

Where semaphore and mutex are initialized with:

// int sem_init(sem_t *sem, int pshared, unsigned int value);
sem_init(&semaphore, 0, 3);
// int pthread_mutex_init(pthread_mutex_t *mutex, const pthread_mutexattr_t *attr);
pthread_mutex_init(&mutex, NULL);

If the function take_and_put is repeatedly called by a large number of threads, select correct statements about the take_and_put function.

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Skills and topics tested

  • Embedded Systems
  • IoT
  • Wireless Connection
  • Memory Management
  • Stack Memory Allocation
  • Computer Bus
  • Wired Connection
  • Endianness
  • Number System Conversion
  • Boolean Function
  • Logic Gates

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  • Embedded Software Engineer
  • Embedded Systems Engineer

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