Synopsys Recognizes Technical Excellence at SNUG Boston Conference

Eleventh Annual Boston Event is Part of Largest User Conference Program in EDA

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synopsys, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design,
verification and manufacturing, today announced the Best Paper Awards for the
eleventh annual Synopsys Users' Group (SNUG®) conference in Boston, Mass.,
held from September 21-22. SNUG conference attendees and the SNUG Technical
Committee awarded first place to Garrett Marshall, Jalpa Shah and Scott
Stanslaski of Medtronic for "XA Verification in Implantable Medical Design."
Second place was awarded to Clifford Cummings of Sunburst Design, Inc. and
Heath Chambers of HMC Design Verification, Inc. for "SystemVerilog's Virtual
World -- An Introduction to Virtual Classes, Virtual Methods and Virtual
Interface Instances." Third place was awarded to Douglas Burns, Barry Katz,
Walter Katz, Mike Steinberger and Todd Westerhoff of SiSoft for "Multi-Gigabit
Serial Link Analysis Using HSPICE and AMI Models."

Technical Committee Honorable Mentions were awarded to Franklin Bodine, Chris
McGlone, and Duane Galbi of Intel Corp. for "Predictable and Repeatable
Feedthrough Floorplanning Usinc ICC" and to Premkishore Shivakumar of Intel
Corp. for "E to SystemVerilog Conversion." The Best First-time Presenter award
went to Pavel Rott of Intel Corp. for "Design Rule Check Classification System
with IC Validator," and the Technical Committee Award went to Pete Nixon, Paul
Rotker, Matt Cohen, Keith Morse and Bandish Shah of Sun Microsystems for "RTL
Structural Analysis Using Design Compiler."

SNUG Boston is part of the largest user conference program in electronic
design automation (EDA). Last year, the program attracted more than 6,000
integrated circuit (IC) and system design engineers to open forums in India,
Taiwan, Singapore, San Jose, Germany, Israel and Japan. Attendees represent
the world's largest semiconductor design and manufacturing companies as well
as many innovative start-ups. More than 350 technical users attended this
year's Boston event.

"The eleventh annual SNUG Boston didn't disappoint in these tough times,
providing engineers with high-quality technical content across a range of
topics," said Al Czamara, vice president of hardware engineering, LOA
Technology and SNUG Boston technical chair. "Having an opportunity for
hundreds of engineers to convene, share ideas and challenges and learn from
each other in a technically focused environment helps them to better take on
today's challenging electronic product design, verification and
manufacturing."

Aart de Geus, chairman and chief executive officer at Synopsys, opened the
conference with a keynote sharing his perspective on some important
semiconductor trends. He also spoke about a number of Synopsys' exciting
technology developments, including StarRC(TM) Custom, a new parasitic
extraction solution, IC Compiler's new "In-Design" Rail Analysis and the Lynx
Design System, a comprehensive design creation system that allows design teams
to streamline their processes.

"Given the outstanding quality of the papers presented at SNUG, I'm not
surprised that our users' groups remain so well-attended year after year,"
said de Geus. "I continue to be impressed at how willing these hard-core
designers are to share with each other how they use our tools. Not only are
they collaborating with Synopsys on solving some of the toughest design
challenges out there, but they're collaborating with each other! Being able to
host that experience and recognize the best papers among all the great ones
presented this year in Boston is both an honor and immensely satisfying."

SNUG Boston sponsors included: Platinum Sponsors ARM, TSMC and Common Platform
(Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, IBM and Samsung); and Gold Sponsors
Hewlett-Packard and Virage Logic. The two-day SNUG Boston conference featured
a technical program with 48 presentations that focused on all areas of design
including synthesis, verification, low power design, physical design/sign off,
analog/mixed-signal design, custom design, test and rapid prototyping tools.
This year's program featured 23 user papers, 23 Synopsys technical tutorials,
one workshop and one vision session. These presentations focused on the
challenges that engineers face as they design complex systems for a wide array
of applications.

Please visit the Synopsys Users Group website at
http://www.snug-universal.org/ for more information on upcoming events and how
to submit a paper for consideration by the SNUG technical committee. Customers
can also access proceedings and the award-winning papers at this link.

About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design
automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software,
intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design,
verification and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio
of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate
array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and
manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management,
software-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading
solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best
products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is
headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has more than 65 offices
located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit
Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com/.

Synopsys, Design Compiler, SNUG and StarRC are registered trademarks or
trademarks of Synopsys, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks
mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective
owners.

Editorial Contacts:

Yvette Huygen
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-8635
yvetteh@synopsys.com

Andrea Zils
MCA, Inc.
650-968-8900, ext.135
azils@mcapr.com

SOURCE Synopsys, Inc.

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Andrea Zils of MCA, Inc., +1-650-968-8900, ext. 135, azils@mcapr.com, for
Synopsys, Inc.