SYNP Synplicity (MM)

Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced that Gary Meyers, president and CEO of Synplicity, will participate as a panelist on the EDA Consortium's CEO Forecast and Industry Vision panel. The event will take place in Palo Alto, Calif. on Thursday, February 2, 2006 beginning with a cocktail reception at 6:00 p.m. The CEO panel discussion will begin at 7:00 p.m. The panel will include CEOs from leading EDA companies and will be moderated by Don Clark from The Wall Street Journal. To learn more about the 2006 EDA Consortium CEO Forecast and Industry Vision event and to see a list of panelists go to http://www.edac.org/invites/ceo_forecast_2006.htm The CEO Forecast and Industry Vision panel will take place at the Hewlett-Packard campus at 3000 Hanover Street in Palo Alto, Calif. To register for this event go to http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=100529. About Synplicity Synplicity(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative software solutions that enable the rapid and effective design of complex, high-performance semiconductors. Synplicity's tools provide outstanding performance, cost and time-to-market benefits by simplifying, improving and automating key design planning, logic synthesis, physical synthesis and verification functions for FPGA, DSP, ASIC prototyping, structured/platform ASIC and cell-based ASIC designers. Synplicity is the first company to deliver customized physical synthesis, analysis and floorplanning solutions for today's leading structured/platform ASICs. In addition, the company is the number one supplier of FPGA synthesis solutions and has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction in 2004 and 2005 in EE Times' Annual FPGA Customer Survey. Synplicity's products support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. The company employs over 300 people in over 20 facilities worldwide and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com. Synplicity is a registered trademark of Synplicity, Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.