Synplicity Boosts Quality of Results for Xilinx Devices in Latest FPGA Synthesis Software

Enhanced Synplify Software Provides a Dramatic Increase in Timing Performance and Area Reduction for Xilinx’s Spartan-3 and Virtex-II Pro FPGAs

SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 6, 2003 — Synplicity Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, and a member of the Xilinx AllianceEDA program, today announced it has made several quality of results (QoR) improvements to its Synplify® and Synplify Pro® FPGA synthesis software to provide increased performance and area reduction for Xilinx devices. With these algorithmic QoR enhancements, the latest versions of the Synplify software enable designers to increase the timing performance for their Virtex-II Pro™ devices by an average of nearly 10 percent compared with the previous version of the Synplify software. Additional enhancements to the software have been implemented especially for use in conjunction with Xilinx’s recently announced Integrated Software Environment 6.1i (ISE).

Specific area optimizations made within the Synplify software target Xilinx’s family of cost-efficient Spartan-3™ FPGAs. With these optimizations, designers can obtain significant area reduction in their devices often enabling them to use a smaller, less costly device, potentially saving tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in device costs.

“We constantly strive to lead the industry in providing the highest quality of results with our FPGA synthesis solutions while keeping pace with the demands of today’s latest device architectures,” said Jeff Garrison, director of marketing for FPGA products at Synplicity. “This latest version of the Synplify software has been tuned for use with Xilinx’s ISE 6.1i software, Virtex-II Pro and Spartan-3 devices. We believe the Synplify product’s unique ability to optimize for area after timing has been achieved enables our customers to save on device cost while quickly achieving aggressive timing requirements.”

“Synplicity continues to deliver to our mutual customers FPGA synthesis products that offer best-in-class quality of results, runtime and productivity advantages,” said Rich Sevcik, senior vice president of FPGA products at Xilinx Inc. “We believe customers using this latest version of Synplicity’s Synplify software in combination with our ISE 6.1i software will see a significant improvement in performance and area utilization for our Virtex-II Pro and Spartan-3 FPGA families.”

Pricing and Availability
The Synplify 7.3.3 and Synplify Pro 7.3.3 software are available now. Pricing for the Synplify software starts at $9,500 (U.S.) and pricing for Synplify Pro software starts at $20,000 (U.S.).

About Synplicity
Synplicity Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP) is a leading provider of software products that enable the rapid and effective design and verification of semiconductors used in networking and communications, computer and peripheral, consumer and military/aerospace electronics systems. Recognizing the company's industry-leading position, since the year 2000 Dataquest has named Synplicity as the #1 provider of PLD synthesis tools, announcing a 54 percent market share in 2001, the last year for which data is available. Synplicity leverages its innovative logic synthesis, physical synthesis and verification software solutions to improve performance and shorten development time for complex programmable logic devices, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), Structured ASICs and system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuits. The company’s fast, easy-to-use products offer high quality of results, support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. Synplicity employs over 260 people in its 20 facilities worldwide. Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information on Synplicity, visit http://www.synplicity.com.

Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements regarding the performance of Synplicity’s Synplify 7.3.2 and Synplify 7.3.2 software, both individually and used in conjunction with certain Xilinx devices. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that can cause Synplicity’s Synplify 7.3.2 and Synplify Pro 7.3.2 software’s actual performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such performance or achievements could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the performance and quality of our software products relative to other logic synthesis products for FPGAs and the growth and changing technical requirements in the programmable semiconductor market, particularly with respect to FPGAs. For additional information and considerations regarding the risks faced by Synplicity, see its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as other periodic reports on Form 10-Q. Although Synplicity believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, Synplicity cannot guarantee the future performance or achievements of its software. In addition, neither Synplicity nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these forward-looking statements. Synplicity disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement.

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