Cadence Design Systems interview questions

3 Rounds of interview with one HR and 2 technical where fundamental digital design knowledge was tested and experience in design validation was preferred . Even with minimum project experience, one can crack it with strong fundamentals

race condition is a bug that occurs when the outcome of a system depends on the unpredictable timing or sequence of events. It happens when multiple concurrent threads (or a thread and an ISR) access a shared resource (like a global variable) without proper protection, and at least one of those accesses is a write. The classic example is a "read-modify-write" operation.