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Synplicity Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced that the company has been recognized as delivering the highest level of customer satisfaction among EDA tool vendors serving the FPGA design market, according to the EE Times/Deutsche Bank 2005 EDA survey of FPGA designers. This marks the second consecutive year that Synplicity has been honored with this distinction. The annual survey aims to gain an understanding of the FPGA design environment, determine key FPGA design issues and challenges, and measure the performance of EDA tools and vendors available to FPGA designers. "Being ranked number one by FPGA designers in customer satisfaction for a second straight year is very exciting to us," stated Gary Meyers, president and CEO at Synplicity. "We have always been dedicated to providing the highest level of technical support to our customers. Moving forward, we will continue to listen to our customers and strive to reach new levels of customer support and satisfaction." More information on the FPGA design portion of the EE Times/Deutsche Bank 2005 EDA survey can be found at http://i.cmpnet.com/eetimes/eda/edasurvey_fpga.pdf. About Synplicity's FPGA Synthesis Solutions Synplicity's Synplify(R) software helps programmable logic designers rapidly achieve aggressive performance objectives. The Synplify software takes designs written in VHDL or Verilog as input, and compiles, optimizes and maps them into efficient, high-performance netlists for all leading CPLD and FPGA devices. The Synplify Pro(R) software offers high quality of results and fast runtimes along with an expanded feature set optimized to increase performance and productivity for today's complex programmable devices. The Amplify(R) FPGA Physical Synthesis product performs simultaneous placement and logic optimization closes on aggressive timing goals quickly and has demonstrated performance improvements of up to 45 percent when compared with logic synthetics alone. About Synplicity Synplicity(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative synthesis, verification and physical implementation software solutions that enable the rapid and effective design and verification of semiconductors. Synplicity's high-quality, high-performance tools significantly reduce costs and time-to-market for FPGA, structured/platform ASIC and cell-based/COT ASIC designers. The company's underlying Behavior Extracting Synthesis Technology(R) (BEST(TM)), which is embedded in its logical, physical and verification tools, and has led to Synplicity's top position in FPGA synthesis, now provides the same fast runtimes and quality of results to ASIC and COT customers. The company's fast, easy-to-use products support industry standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. Synplicity employs over 280 people in its 20 facilities worldwide. Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com. Synplicity, Behavior Extracting Synthesis Technology, Synplify, Synplify Pro and Amplify are registered trademarks of Synplicity Inc. BEST is a trademark of Synplicity Inc. All other names mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.