Synopsys, Inc.
Corporate Fact Sheet – December 2009

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) is the 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.

Management Team

• Dr. Aart J. de Geus, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
• Dr. Chi-Foon Chan, President and Chief Operating Officer
• Brian Beattie, Chief Financial Officer
• Brian Cabrera, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
• John Chilton, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Strategic Development
• Jan Collinson, Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Facilities
• Dr. Antun Domic, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Implementation Group
• Manoj Gandhi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Verification Group
• Deirdre Hanford, Senior Vice President, Global Technical Services
• Dr. Howard Ko, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Silicon Engineering Group
• Joachim Kunkel, Vice President and General Manager, Solutions Group
• Dr. Paul Lo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Analog Mixed Signal Group
• Joe Logan, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Products
Synopsys' full suite of best-in-class solutions enables designers to create and verify complex integrated circuits (IC) and SoC designs from concept to silicon. Synopsys provides a complete front-to-back design and test environment, software-level to silicon-level verification, design reuse technology (IP), field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions and professional services to help its customers get their silicon working quickly and accurately. Synopsys also leads the way in offering technology that creates a bridge between design and manufacturing to improve yield and increase predictability. Synopsys' products help customers improve their designs in virtually every metric, including performance, complexity, silicon area, cost, power consumption and time-to-market.

* Fiscal Year 2009 (ended October 31, 2009)
** Total employees worldwide as reported for Q4 FY 2009

Synopsys, Inc.
Corporate Backgrounder - October 2009

Introduction
Synopsys 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.

Compute power, multimedia, graphics, video and communications features continue to converge in consumer products, applying constant pressure on engineers to create designs that are especially sensitive to power consumption, size and cost. Synopsys gives its customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. From high-level synthesis to silicon, Synopsys provides solutions to the most difficult challenges that confront engineers who are pushing electronic design to the limit, including power management, accelerated time to yield, time to results (TTR), software-to-silicon verification and predictable design closure to reduce the cost of design. Synopsys technology can be found in virtually every chip in the world.

History
Since its inception more than 23 years ago, Synopsys has grown from a small one-product start-up to a diverse company that is the technology leader in IC design tools, offering a complete solution from concept to silicon. The company was founded in 1986 by Dr. Aart J. de Geus and a team of engineers from General Electric's Microelectronics Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. First established as "Optimal Solutions," Synopsys was chartered to develop and market the synthesis technology developed by the team at General Electric. Synopsys proceeded to pioneer the commercial application of logic synthesis that has since been adopted by every major electronics company in the world.

Financial Information
Synopsys stock trades on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the symbol "SNPS."

Results for the latest twelve months* are as follows:
Revenue: $1.337* billion
Pro Forma Earnings per Share: $1.71*

* FY 2008 (ended October 31, 2008)

Recent Mergers and Acquisitions
Throughout its history, Synopsys has accelerated its technology strategy by adding to its internally developed products with technology gained from mergers and acquisitions.

On May 8, 2009, Synopsys acquired the Analog Business Group of MIPS Technologies, Inc. The acquisition expands Synopsys' DesignWare® intellectual property (IP) portfolio with a new family of analog IP such as Analog-to-Digital Converters, Digital-to-Analog Converters, Audio Codecs and Power Management. It also adds HDMI TX and RX protocols to Synopsys' existing interface IP solution. Synopsys expects the acquisition to benefit designers in a number of ways, including: providing access to an even broader portfolio of high-quality interface and analog IP that supports the latest connectivity standards, process technologies and foundries - all from a single, trusted vendor; and continuing to maintain the quality standards and excellent technical support which customers are accustomed to receiving from Synopsys.

On December 18, 2008, Synopsys acquired the CHIPit business unit of ProDesign, a leading provider of high-speed ASIC and System-on-Chip (SoC) verification systems. CHIPit is a line of automated ASIC prototyping solutions that provides hardware-assisted verification throughout the SoC and ASIC project life cycles. The integration of CHIPit's strong team, technology and products into Synopsys' Synplicity Business Group expands Synopsys' presence in the fast-growing rapid prototyping segment and accelerate its ability to address every phase in the verification cycle.

On May 16, 2008, Synopsys acquired Synplicity®, Inc., a leading supplier of innovative field programmable gate array (FPGA) and IC design and verification solutions that serve a wide range of communications, military/aerospace, semiconductor, consumer, computer, and other electronic applications markets. The acquisition expands Synopsys' technology portfolio, channel reach and total addressable market by adding complementary products and expertise for FPGA solutions and rapid ASIC prototyping.

Products and Technology
Synopsys products span the entire design flow, allowing customers to use integrated best-in-class technology from design specification to silicon fabrication. Synopsys develops and supports products in four major areas in order to provide customers with an integrated solution for advanced semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing: Galaxy™ Design Platform, Discovery™ Verification Platform, and Confirma™ hardware-based verification, design-for-manufacturing, TCAD, DesignWare® Intellectual Property, FPGA implementation solutions and ESL synthesis.

Programs and Services
Professional Services
Synopsys' services organization delivers a portfolio of consulting and design services to help chip developers achieve success in their design programs. These services are tightly aligned with our EDA, IP and FPGA products to advance customers' learning curves and help them develop and deploy advanced methodologies that improve their productivity and design results. Our worldwide team of design consultants complements our customers' core competencies to mitigate their project risks and accelerate the implementation of their chips.

Interoperability and Standards
Synopsys is a leader in interoperability and standards. The company demonstrates its leadership by actively participating in industry organizations, partnering with other EDA companies, and making its own technology available through open-source licensing or donation to standards groups. Synopsys works with standards bodies and industry organizations to lay the groundwork for tool interoperability interoperability throughout the EDA industry. Through its in-Sync program, Synopsys establishes relationships with other EDA vendors to create a smooth, predictable path between Synopsys tools and its in-Sync partners' products. Synopsys has made significant contributions to and has driven the industry adoption of a number of industry-critical standards, including SystemVerilog, Liberty, SystemC, Unified Power Format (UPF), Interoperable PDK Libraries (IPL), UCIS (Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard) and the Verification Methodology Manual (VMM) class library, via direct contributions to the industry or through standards bodies and industry organizations. Synopsys is committed to making tool interoperability a reality.

Partnership Programs
Collaboration is imperative in enabling the companies laying the foundation for SoC design to deliver comprehensive solutions that benefit mutual customers. To this end, Synopsys has developed dedicated, strategic alliances with the leading foundry, FPGA and IP suppliers to jointly solve the challenges of system complexity and nanometer scale for leading-edge SoC design. Key alliance partners include:

• ARM Ltd.
• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC)
• Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., IBM Corp. and Samsung (The Common Platform)
• Actel, Altera, Lattice & Xilinx (FPGA)

Synopsys also maintains a broader semiconductor vendor and IP vendor program aimed at enabling our vendor partners to produce the best quality libraries and design flows for mutual customers.

Synopsys University Program
Synopsys is committed to providing research and academic institutions with access to the tools and technology needed to develop well-educated students who can meet the difficult challenges of IC and SoC design. Prior to entering the workforce, engineering students receive hands-on experience—in the classroom and in graduate-level research programs—with Synopsys' industry-leading EDA solutions. Synopsys began partnering with universities in 1986, formally establishing the Synopsys University Program in 1996. Synopsys software is currently installed in more than 1,100 educational institutions worldwide. The Synopsys University Program reaches thousands of students and professors across the globe every year.

Synopsys Community Relations
Synopsys is helping inspire the next generation of technology leaders by reaching out to local communities to foster education and science programs. Synopsys provides financial donations and encourages employee leadership and participation through a variety of corporate programs at its offices around the world. To date, at least 45 Synopsys offices are involved in their local communities, averaging more than 10,000 volunteer hours a year. Ten offices distribute grants to primary and secondary education programs worldwide.

In 1999, Synopsys established the Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation to promote interest in math and science through science fair participation for students in grades K-12. Through the Outreach Foundation, the company spends $1 million annually on local science and math education. Since its inception, more than 600,000 students and teachers have participated in the program. By focusing its resources on education initiatives, Synopsys hopes to make a lasting and measurable difference in the fields it knows best.