I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2014
Interview
Two phone interviews. Both had similar questions asked by different people
Pipeline, stages, hazards, how u avoid. How u implement these. Register forwarding implementation. Register renaming implementation. why not many stages in pipeline
retire time
cache LRU algorithm?
Cache sets and ways given. calc the cache size
Physical to VA translation!!
assembly knowledge? give psuedo code to reverse data in 8 byte reg
Second phone screen has almost similar questions.
Graphics related quesitons: explain various stages of GPU pipe
what happens
what's vertex/pixel