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Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced that FPGA designers have recognized the company as the leader in customer satisfaction among tool vendors serving the FPGA design market for the third consecutive year, according to the EE Times 2006 Electronic Design Automation Branding Study. In the study, released on July 31, 2006, participants were asked to rate their satisfaction of products and services provided by FPGA tool vendors and device suppliers. The survey revealed that user satisfaction with Synplicity's tools continues to be the highest among all FPGA tool vendors and increased even when compared to last year's top ranking. "We are very honored that customers have once again acknowledged us as the FPGA tool customer satisfaction leader," stated Gary Meyers, president and CEO at Synplicity. "Synplicity's highest priority is our customers' success and we are dedicated to providing them with world-class products and exceptional support. We will not rest with this latest accolade, and have rededicated ourselves to an even higher standard of innovation leadership, outstanding quality, and support excellence." "One of the key objectives to our annual EDA branding study is to measure the performance of EDA tools and device vendors," said Brian Fuller, editor-in-chief of EE Times. "It is critical that as an industry we gain insight into the key challenges and issues facing FPGA EDA tool users." EE Times' EDA branding study sets out to gain an understanding of the FPGA design environment, determine key FPGA design issues and challenges, and measure the performance of EDA and vendor-supplied tools available to design engineers. 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. Synplicity's Synplify Pro software is the industry's leading FPGA synthesis product. The Synplify Pro software combines superior quality of results with fast runtimes, unmatched ease-of-use, and technology independence. By using a true timing-driven approach to synthesis, the Synplify Pro tool meets design performance requirements while simultaneously minimizing area. The Synplify Premier product utilizes Synplicity's innovative push-button, graph-based physical synthesis approach, improving overall device performance while simultaneously delivering tight correlation between pre-route timing estimates and final post place-and-route results. About the CMP Technology Electronics Group (www.cmp.com) The CMP Technology Electronics Group is the premier technology and business media brand serving the information needs of the creators of technology worldwide. Offering a full suite of products and services to reach electronics technology professionals throughout the world, the CMP Technology Electronics Group delivers the most targeted audience and actionable information to marketers in the electronics technology community. Each month, the CMP Technology Electronics Group delivers more than 1 million copies of its print publications, including EE Times, to subscribers in 21 countries and online visitors from 100 countries view more than 7.5 million pages on its Web sites including EE Times Online and TechOnLine. More than 35,000 decision makers from 48 countries attend its events such as Embedded Systems Conferences each year in North America, China and Taiwan. About Synplicity Synplicity, 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 by FPGA designers since 2004 through the EE Times' Annual FPGA EDA Branding 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 and Synplify are registered trademarks of Synplicity Inc. All other names mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.