Site Questions
The sugar land site zip code
77479
Name 3 US colleges that TI recruited at in 2025
Florida, UT, A&M, Michigan, Illinois, purdue, north Carolina A&T, north carolina state, prairie view A&M, southern university A&M, North Carolina state, USC, UCLA, cal poly
The special ‘\0’ character terminates the end of every _.
string
Bus capacitance and clock speeds affect these two critical timing requirements
A form of non-volatile memory that persists the data written even if there is a power cycle. This memory is electrically erasable and programmable.
Flash memory
How many interns did TI Sugar Land have in the summer of 2025
Six
Name a calculator that TI released between the years 1990-2000
TI-81, TI-92 CAS, TI-83
What is the term for a variable that retains its value between function calls?
Static variable
In an AC circuit, what quantity is calculated as the ratio of the real power and apparent power?
Power factor
What does RTOS stand for
Real-Time Operating System
Name all 4 types of creamers available at the coffee station
The original, hazelnut, French vanilla, almond milk vanilla
What year did jack kilby invent the integrated circuit
1958
The function used to allocate a single block of contiguous memory on the heap at runtime, initialized to zero
calloc()
Unlike an SR flip flop, the JK flip flop does not suffer from this problem when both inputs are high
What does JTAG stand for
How many people currently work at the Sugar Land site
181
Name the 3 US cities with the largest TI sites (number of people)
Dallas, Lehi, Richardson
Which git command is used to combine alterations from one branch into another. It forms a linear history, avoiding merge commits. Use it to clean up commit history, keep a project history sequential, and make feature branches up-to-date before uniting
git rebase
In a N channel MOSFET, which is the more negative of the elements?
Source
What is the maximum number of devices theoretically addressable on a standard I2C bus
Name the (3rd floor) room directly above the astrodome
Katy conference room
The TI device or device category of part number: BZX84WC18V
What C programming term describes the below lines of code for a function foo(): (4)
int (*whatami)(int, int);
whatami = &foo;
Function pointer
In FFT computation, what mathematical property of twiddle-factor multiplication is exploited to reduce repeated calculations across stages?
The process of predicting which instruction will be executed next to improve pipeline efficiency
Branch prediction