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Synopsys VLSI Design and Verification Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 20 Mar 2024

Synopsys VLSI Design and Verification Engineer Interview Experiences

2 interviews found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
No response
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is setup time ?
  • Ans. 

    Setup time is the amount of time a data input signal must be stable before the clock edge for proper operation of a flip-flop.

    • Setup time is the minimum time required for the input data signal to be stable before the clock edge.

    • It ensures that the data input is captured correctly by the flip-flop.

    • If the setup time is not met, the flip-flop may capture the wrong data.

    • Setup time violations can lead to timing issues in dig...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 3 input xor and xnor gate

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Good to go

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jun 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

50 questions for 90 mins

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic digital electronics ,static time analysis, verilog coding , basic c programing

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - focus on digital and verilog and go through gate paper for aptitude round

VLSI Design and Verification Engineer Interview Questions Asked at Other Companies

Q1. How many combinations of inverter can be made using just 1 nand g ... read more
Q2. what is ring counter, Jhonson counter, Sync and Async Counters.
Q3. Difference between Bocking and Non-Blocking in Verilog
Q4. What do you mean by universal Gates?
Q5. using 2:1 mux make inverter, AND Gate, OR Gate.

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I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. They asked me optimise the code I had written for the first question
  • Q2. Given a binary tree, find out the maximum sum path from root to leaf. This problem, but they said tree has only positive integers. -----/ . To store the path I had used global array. They asked me alternat...
  • Q3. Given a list of words. Given three operations find out the minimum steps to reach from source string to destination string. Basically, -----/ this is the problem with some modification. For this question I...
  • Ans. 

    The question is about finding the minimum steps to reach from a source string to a destination string using three operations.

    • BFS and DFS are graph traversal techniques that can be used to solve this problem.

    • BFS is typically used when finding the shortest path or exploring all possible paths in a graph.

    • DFS is useful when searching for a specific path or exploring deeply into a graph.

    • In this case, BFS can be used to find...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: • 1 question was on time complexity of searching an unsorted array.
• 2 questions were on recursion, ie, number of recursive calls.
• 1 question on analysing given function on string.
• 1 question was on probability(Two hotels, say A and B. Probability of moving from A to B is 2/3, staying at A is 1/3. Probability of moving from B to A and staying at B is 1/2. If they make decisions each hour, and if they were at A at 7:00 pm, what is the probability that they will be at B at 10:00 pm).
• If a set has elements {1,2,3,4 .... n}. Then what is the sum of elements of it's power set. (Ex: S = {1,2}. Then power set is {{},{1},{2},{1,2}}. The sum is 6.
• If a set has elements {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}. Then how many subsets of 3 elements has no consecutive elements.
• 1 question was on designing a DFA for a string starting with a and ending with c and has at least b in it.
• 1 question had machine instructions. We had to find out minimum number of cycles needed to execute the given set of instructions. (a) If the instructions are executed in the given order. (b) If the instructions are executed in random order.
• 1 puzzle on bridges.

Tips: In this round they not only see the answer. They also verify how you approached(So, give correct explanation to your answers).
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 10

Round: Coding Round
Experience: Two questions were there. 3 hours duration.

1. Long question, I don't remember fully. I'll just give input/output examples. It was basically on string decoding. If jon2snow3 is there the decoded string will be jonjonsnowjonjonsnowjonjonsnow. Given a string and an integer k we have print the kth character in the decoded string
input:
jon2snow3
8
output:
n

2. Given an array and an integer k return the number of contiguous sub arrays whose sum is divisible by k.
input format:
n k

input:
4 5
10 0 4 5

output:
4

explaination: {10},{0},{10,0},{5} are the sub arrays with sum divisible by 5.


Tips: You will have lots of time, so try to optimise the solution if you can. Remember here also they review each individual's code.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They will help you a lot if you are stuck at some point in the question. You have to be smart enough to grasp the clue.
Tips: They only ask questions only on data structures and algorithms.

Skill Tips: You have to be strong in coding. Algorithm questions will be mostly on dynamic programming. Data structures questions are mostly on trees.
Skills: C Programming, Maths(esp Probability), Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 5
College Name: JSS Mahavidyapeetha Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering, Mysore

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 4 Dec 2016

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Why UDP and not TCP in project
  • Ans. 

    UDP is preferred over TCP in this project due to its low latency and lightweight nature.

    • UDP is a connectionless protocol, which means it does not establish a direct connection between the sender and receiver.

    • UDP is faster than TCP as it does not have the overhead of establishing and maintaining a connection.

    • UDP is suitable for applications where real-time data transmission is crucial, such as video streaming or online ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. How would you clear the 7th bit in a 32 bit register
  • Ans. 

    To clear the 7th bit in a 32-bit register, perform a bitwise AND operation with a mask that has all bits set to 1 except the 7th bit.

    • Create a mask with the 7th bit set to 0 and all other bits set to 1

    • Perform a bitwise AND operation between the register and the mask

    • Store the result back in the register

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Questions were based on C concepts, given piece of code, find error, output, etc then data structures, bit manipulation, a few aptitude questions were also there (around 5-7).
Tips: Practice aptitude, C, data structures (geeksforgeeks.org is a good source).
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: I was asked to explain project in detail, I had done projects on embedded, so was asked about that, details like what fields did you use in that structure, why this implementation and not some related other. Memory management, network communications, operating systems. Then questions on C concepts like memory allocation, function pointers, then data structures like linked lists, then bit manipulation in registers. Questions from electrical coursework. Then later, why higher studies, would you still go for higher studies if you had a good job at a company, why etc.
Tips: Be thorough with C (know your Kernighan & Ritchie) and be prepared to go into details about your projects.

Skills: C, Data Structures, Coursework Understanding, Project And Internship
College Name: IIT Madras

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Asked me about my answer for a question in the logical test and asked me to find mistake
  • Q2. Some tree question
  • Q3. Some array question

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Just logical questions. Maybe create a DFA and NFA.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20

Round: Coding
Experience: Given two questions. Each question is written like a story, but once you get the idea, it will be a simple question

College Name: Govt. Model Engineering College

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Sep 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Basic c programming
  • Q2. Previous experience questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be honest. And prepare well in data structures
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Apr 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Level was medium to hard

Round 2 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Technical interview
  • Q2. Questions on DSA Cs fundamentals
  • Q3. Coding questions
  • Q4. Ques on String array
  • Q5. To print tree in anticlock wise direction
  • Ans. 

    To print a tree in anticlockwise direction, start from the bottom left and traverse each level from right to left.

    • Start from the bottom left of the tree

    • Traverse each level from right to left

    • Print the nodes as you traverse

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. About my current company
  • Q2. About the work I do in my current company
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Coding round where they ask few coding questions

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

3 rounds online, dsa, hr

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Dsa on dp topic
  • Q2. Dsa on dp topics
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Feb 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

It was online coding test consist of 2 question
One from DP and other graph

Round 2 - Coding Test 

One question of DP within in 45 min time constraints

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Floor value of square root of a number
  • Ans. 

    Floor value of square root of a number is the largest integer less than or equal to the square root.

    • The floor value of square root of a number can be found using mathematical functions like floor() or integer division.

    • For example, the floor value of square root of 16 is 4, as sqrt(16) = 4.

    • For non-perfect square numbers, the floor value of square root can be calculated using approximation methods.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go through DSA and core subjects
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