Synopsys is an American electronic design automation company that focuses on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property and software security and quality. Products include tools for logic synthesis and physical design, simulators for development and debugging environments that assist in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems.
It has got a 4.1* rating on Glassdoor and is considered one of the best product-based companies. It is highly regarded for its work-life balance.
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Synopsys Array Questions
Question 1. Largest subarray with equal number of 0s and 1s You are given an array of integers. The integers are only 0 and 1 in the input array. The problem statement asks to find out the largest sub-array that can have equal count of 0s and 1s. Example arr[]={0,1,0,1,0,1,1,1} 0 to 5 (total 6 elements) Explanation From the array position ...
Question 2. Non-overlapping sum of two sets Problem Statement The problem “Non-overlapping sum of two sets” states that you are given two arrays as input values as arrA[] and arrB[] of the same size n. Also, both of the arrays have distinct elements individually and some common elements. Your task is to find out the total sum ...
Question 3. Range sum queries without updates Problem Statement The problem “Range sum queries without updates” states that you have an array of integers and a range. The problem statement asks to find out the sum of all the elements within the given range. Example arr[]={10, 9, 8, 7, 6} Query: {(0, 4), (1, 3)} 40 24 ...
Question 4. Three way partitioning of an array around a given range Problem Statement You are given an array of integers and a range of lowValue and highValue. The problem “Three way partitioning of an array around a given range” asks to partition the array such that array will be divided into three parts. The partitions of the arrays will be: Elements ...
Question 5. Find a sorted subsequence of size 3 in linear time Problem Statement The problem “Find a sorted subsequence of size 3 in linear time” states that you have an integer array. The problem statement asks to find out the three numbers in such a way that array[i] < array [k] < array[k], and i < j < k. Example arr[] ...
Question 6. Elements to be added so that all elements of a range are present in array Problem Statement “Elements to be added so that all elements of a range are present in array” states that you are given an array of integers. The problem statement asks to find out the count of elements to be added in an array so that all elements lie in the ...
Question 7. Count quadruples from four sorted arrays whose sum is equal to a given value x Problem Statement Problem “Count quadruples from four sorted arrays whose sum is equal to a given value x” state that you are given four integer arrays and a value called x. The problem statement asks to find out how many quadruplets can be formed of which sum of elements of ...
Question 8. Largest area rectangular sub-matrix with equal number of 1’s and 0’s Problem Statement Given a binary matrix of size n x m. The problem is to find the largest area rectangular sub-matrix with equal number of 1’s and 0’s. Example Dimensions = 4 x 4 Matrix: 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 ...
Question 9. Count minimum steps to get the given desired array Problem Statement Suppose you have an array containing only integer 0 as all of its elements. Consider, you are given an array of length n having all 0s in which we have to convert the 0s to the given required array. We can name the required array as the desiredArr ...
Question 10. Smallest Subarray With all Occurrences of a Most Frequent Element In the smallest subarray with all occurrences of a most frequent element problem, we have given an array. Take a number “m” in an array with the maximum frequency. The problem statement says that you have to find out the smallest subarray which also has all the occurrence of number ...
Question 11. Merge Sorted Array In merge sorted array problem we have given two sorted arrays in increasing order. In input first, we have given the number initialized to array1 and array2. These two-number are N and M. The size of array1 is equal to the sum of N and M. In array 1 first ...
Synopsys String Questions
Question 12. Palindrome Substring Queries Problem Statement The problem “Palindrome Substring Queries” states that you are given a String and some queries. With those queries, you have to determine if the formed substring from that query is a palindrome or not. Example String str = "aaabbabbaaa" Queries q[] = { {2, 3}, {2, 8},{5, 7}, ...
Synopsys Tree Questions
Question 13. Given a binary tree, how do you remove all the half nodes? The problem “Given a binary tree, how do you remove all the half nodes?” states that you are given a binary tree. Now you need to remove the half nodes. A half node is defined as a node in the tree that has only a single child. Either it is ...
Question 14. Check if each internal node of a BST has exactly one child Problem Statement “Check if each internal node of a BST has exactly one child” problem states that you are given a preorder traversal of a binary search tree. And you need to find if all the non-leaf nodes contain only a single child. Here we also consider that all the ...
Question 15. Maximum Depth Of Binary Tree Problem Statement “Maximum depth of binary tree” problem states that you are given a binary tree data structure. Print the maximum depth of the given binary tree. Example Input 2 Explanation: Maximum depth for the given tree is 2. Because there is only a single element below the root (i.e. ...
Synopsys Matrix Questions
Question 16. Largest area rectangular sub-matrix with equal number of 1’s and 0’s Problem Statement Given a binary matrix of size n x m. The problem is to find the largest area rectangular sub-matrix with equal number of 1’s and 0’s. Example Dimensions = 4 x 4 Matrix: 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 ...
Synopsys Other Questions
Question 17. Find missing elements of a range The problem Find missing elements of a range” states that you are given an array of distinct elements within a particular range and a range given as low and high. Find all the missing elements within a range which is not present in an array. The output should be in ...
Question 18. Find Number of Employees Under every Employee HashMaps are one of the most useful data structures. Find the number of employees under every employee is a problem that reminds me of the famous movie’s inception. Akin to dream in a dream. Here, we have an employee working under an employee and so on. Problem Statement So, what ...