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New Strategic Relationship Extends Synplicity's ASIC Synthesis Software Offering

Faraday Technology Delivers Library Support for Synplicity's ASIC Synthesis Software

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2002--Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP - News), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced Faraday Technology Corporation (Taiwan OTC: 5404), a leader in ASIC design service, now supports Synplicity's Synplify ASIC® synthesis software in its ASIC design tool kit. Libraries for the Synplify ASIC software are accessible on Faraday's Web site at http://www.faraday.com.tw. With this announcement, Synplicity now offers its customers ASIC vendor support in Asia, Europe, Japan and North America.

"We provide our customers with library kits that work with tools in their ASIC design flow," said George Hwang, vice president at Faraday Technology. "We believe the Synplify ASIC software will fit nicely into our customers' design flow and enable them to achieve higher design success. We have seen an increasing demand for the Synplify ASIC software from our customers over the past months and are pleased to announce today our support for the software."

"Faraday Technology is one of the top ASIC vendors, and its support of the Synplify ASIC software represents a significant step for our ASIC synthesis solution," said Andy Haines, vice president of marketing at Synplicity. "In the one year since its introduction we have seen an enthusiastic response from the industry for our Synplify ASIC software. We have established strategic relationships with many ASIC vendors to support our customers around the globe. With Faraday Technology's library support for our Synplify ASIC software, we believe we can now meet the demands of our customers in Asia with local ASIC vendor support."

Other ASIC vendors supporting the Synplify ASIC software include AMI Semiconductor, Chip Express, Fujitsu, Lightspeed Semiconductor and Oki Semiconductor. The Synplify ASIC software also features support from major library vendors including Artisan Components and Virtual Silicon.

About the Synplify ASIC Software

Introduced in June 2001, Synplicity's Synplify ASIC software is the industry's first ASIC synthesis product optimized to improve productivity for the majority of ASIC designers. The software leverages the company's proven synthesis technology, delivers high quality of results and features order of magnitude runtime improvements -- up to 15 times faster than traditional synthesis products. The Synplify ASIC software offers a scalable and flexible methodology for high-complexity ASIC design -- the MultiPoint(TM) synthesis design methodology -- enabling designers to perform complete design optimization with fast runtimes and high quality of results.

Pricing and Availability

The Synplify ASIC software is available now for Linux (Red Hat 7.1), HP-UX 11.0, Sun Solaris 2.7/2.8, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems. A perpetual license of the Synplify ASIC software lists for $115,000 (U.S.). A one-year time-based license of the Synplify ASIC software lists for $69,000 (U.S.).

Customers interested in evaluating the software can do so with Synplicity's "Express Evaluation" toolkit, which enables a designer to complete a four-step evaluation of the software, including installation and training, within a day. The toolkit provides all of the basic information needed to conduct a hands-on evaluation of the Synplify ASIC software including an evaluation copy of the software, a design tutorial, a test case design and all of the necessary design libraries. The kit is available by contacting your local Synplicity® sales office.

About Faraday Technology

Faraday Technology Corporation has been providing remarkable ASIC design services and valuable IPs (Intellectual Properties) for customers ranging from small start-ups to large multinational IC design houses and system houses. With more than 350 employees and annual revenue of 2.4 billion NT Dollars in 2001, Faraday is the largest organization of its type in the Asia-Pacific area. Headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Faraday has branch offices around the world, including the U.S.A., Japan and Europe. More information on Faraday is available at http://www.faraday.com.tw.

About Synplicity

Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP - News) 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, Dataquest named Synplicity as the #1 provider of PLD synthesis tools in 2000 with a 45 percent market share. 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) 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. As of March 31, 2002, Synplicity employed 269 people in its 20 facilities worldwide. Synplicity is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information on Synplicity, visit http://www.synplicity.com.

Synplicity and Synplify ASIC are registered trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. MultiPoint is a trademark of Synplicity, Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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Contact:
     Porter Novelli for Synplicity
     Steve Gabriel, 408/369-1500
     steve.gabriel@porternovelli.com
        or
     Faraday Technology
     Selina Ko, +886.3.578.7888 ext. 8048
     selina@faraday.com.tw

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