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Synplicity, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced its Synplify(R) Premier software with graph-based physical synthesis technology was awarded the prestigious LSI of the Year Award's first-place Grand Prix Award. Winning the award in the Design Environment/Development Tools category, the Synplify Premier software features Synplicity's innovative graph-based physical synthesis technology, merging optimization, placement and routing to generate a fully placed and physically optimized design. The Graph-based physical synthesis technology within the Synplify Premier software improves timing closure by means of a single-pass physical synthesis flow for 90nm FPGAs. Synplicity received the award during a ceremony on June 28 at the 9th Embedded Systems Expo & Conference being held at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan. The Semiconductor Industry News established the LSI of the Year awards in 1994 to promote market development and technology in the semiconductor industry. The award acknowledges the most remarkable LSI products and technology in two categories -- the Device category, and the Design Environment/Development Tool category. Nearly 250 products were nominated for the 2006 award with the Synplicity Premier software receiving first-place recognition by receiving the Grand Prix Award. "We are extremely honored to receive the prestigious LSI of the Year Award for our Synplify Premier product," said Gary Meyers, president and CEO of Synplicity, Inc. "The Synplify Premier software represents a breakthrough achievement and this award demonstrates our continuing leadership position in the FPGA synthesis market. We remain committed to offering innovative software solutions that enable the rapid and effective design of complex, high-performance semiconductors." "Synplicity holds a dominant share of the FPGA logic synthesis market," said Dr. Eng. Hiroto Yasuura, professor of Kyushu University, Chairman of the review committee. "Synplicity's unique FPGA physical synthesis technology ensures fast timing closure and improves operation speed. The Synplify Premier software is highly evaluated as an essential method for 90nm FPGA designs." This award marks the fourth time Synplicity's tools have won an LSI of the Year award. Previous products from Synplicity that won the prestigious award include: the Amplify(R) Family of Structured/Platform ASIC synthesis tools (2005 Semi-Grand Prix award winner); Identify(R) RTL Debugger software (2004 third place LSI of the Year award winner); Amplify(R) FPGA Physical Synthesis software with TOPS(TM) (Total Optimization Physical Synthesis Technology) (2002 Jury's Special award winner). About Synplify Premier The Synplify Premier software builds upon Synplicity's industry leading synthesis technology and adds new graph-based physical synthesis and real-time simulator-like visibility into operating FPGA devices. Graph-based physical synthesis technology improves timing closure by means of a single-pass physical synthesis flow for 90nm FPGAs. The technology merges optimization, placement and routing to generate a fully placed and physically optimized netlist, providing rapid timing closure and a 5% to 20% timing improvement. In addition, Synplify Premier offers the most efficient method of in-system verification of FPGAs. The Synplify Premier software dramatically accelerates the debug process and provides a rapid and incremental method for finding elusive design problems. With the addition of graph-based physical synthesis and source-level, in-circuit debugging to the world's best FPGA synthesis technology, the Synplify Premier tool is the industry's most comprehensive and productive FPGA design solution. About Synplicity Synplicity(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative software solutions that enable the rapid and effective design of Programmable Logic Devices (FPGAs, PLDs and CPLDs) and are used in a wide range of communications, military/aerospace, consumer, semiconductor, computer, and other electronic systems markets. 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, FPGA-based ASIC prototyping and DSP designers. Synplicity 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 products support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. The company operates in over 20 facilities worldwide and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com. Synplicity, Amplify, Identify and Synplify are registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. TOPS is a trademark of Synplicity, Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.