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Question 01EasySystemVerilog

SystemVerilog logic, bit, and wire 4-State Types

A signal is assigned only in one always_ff block, and the verification environment must be able to observe X and Z values. Which declaration best matches that intent?

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Choose D, logic q. logic is a four-state variable, so it can represent 0, 1, X, and Z and may be assigned by a single always_ff process. bit loses unknown information, while wire describes a net and is not the appropriate procedural storage declaration here.

Question 02EasyData Structures

SystemVerilog Packed vs. Unpacked Arrays

How should this declaration be interpreted?

Concise answer

Choose C. bytes is an unpacked collection of four elements, and each element is an eight-bit packed vector. The [7:0] dimension appears with the type, so its bits form a contiguous value; [4] follows the identifier and establishes the outer element collection.

Question 03EasySystemVerilog

SystemVerilog Blocking vs. Nonblocking Assignments

What values are printed by display and strobe, in that order?

Concise answer

Choose D: $display prints D=0 and $strobe prints S=1. The blocking assignment changes a immediately, while the nonblocking assignment schedules its update for the NBA region. $display runs before that scheduled update; $strobe reports later, after the new value has taken effect.

Question 04EasyConstraints

SystemVerilog Basic Constraint Interview Question

Which set exactly describes all possible values of x after a successful randomize()?

Concise answer

The attainable set is `{1, 2, 4}`. Both expressions in the constraint block must hold: membership limits `x` to the inclusive interval 1–4, and the inequality then removes 3. Declaring `x` unsigned does not reintroduce zero.

Question 05EasyTemporal Checks

SVA Overlapped vs. Nonoverlapped Implication

For the one-cycle antecedent a, which property is cycle-equivalent to the property shown?

Concise answer

For this one-cycle antecedent, `a |=> b` is cycle-equivalent to `a |-> ##1 b`. Nonoverlapped implication checks the consequent on the sampled edge after `a`; overlapped implication plus an explicit one-cycle delay reaches that same edge.

Question 06EasyTemporal Checks

How SVA disable iff Handles Reset

A request is sampled high, but rst_n goes low before the next edge where gnt would be checked. What happens to that pending assertion attempt?

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The pending attempt is canceled as soon as `rst_n` becomes low. It is not counted as a pass or failure and does not wait to resume. `disable iff` acts independently of the assertion’s sampling edge, so reset between edges still aborts it.

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