PINEBUSH TECHNOLOGIES DELIVERS HYPERPLOT FOR SYNOPSYS GALAXY CUSTOM DESIGNER  

ALBANY, NY AND MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—July 23, 2009—

Pinebush Technologies, Inc., provider of HyperPlot™, the industry leading printing and plotting software for IC design and  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced a new solution for printing and plotting tightly integrated into Synopsys’ Galaxy Custom Designer™ implementation solution.

Analog and mixed-signal designers require the ability to visualize their designs at larger scales with WYSIWYG fills, stipples and patterns. With HyperPlot’s multiple format architecture and the open architecture of Custom Designer, the Synopsys and Pinebush Technologies teams have integrated HyperPlot  into Synopsys’ custom implementation environment to deliver a best-in-class rasterization solution for Custom Designer users. Utilizing HyperPlot, Custom Designer users can easily plot to a number of wide-format plotters, desktop printers, or output to multiple graphics formats, including PDF, JPEG, TIF, and Postscript.

"Our customers require a high-quality printing and plotting solution,” said Paul Lo, senior vice president and general manager of the Analog/Mixed-Signal Group at Synopsys. “Pinebush Technologies has been delivering HyperPlot to IC designers for the last two decades and has a strong reputation for the highest performance and breadth of features.  At many of our current customers, HyperPlot has long been the standard printing and plotting solution, so integrating it into the Custom Designer environment was an intuitive fit.”

"Synopsys has world-class expertise in developing an extensive set of solutions for the semiconductor industry," said George Chandler, president and chief executive officer of Pinebush Technologies. "We believe this collaboration with Synopsys to develop and enhance HyperPlot rasterization capabilities for Custom Designer will be met with strong approval by analog and mixed-signal designers."

About Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys’ comprehensive, integrated  portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, software-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has more than 65 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com.

About Pinebush Technologies, Inc.

Pinebush Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Albany, New York, is a leading developer of high performance printing and plotting software solutions.  HyperPlot®, has become the standard for plotting in the semiconductor industry with over 35,000 electronic CAD designers worldwide relying on its optimized printing engine.  Information about Pinebush and its products can be obtained at www.pinebush.com.

Contacts:

Pinebush Technologies, Inc.                                             Synopsys, Inc.

George Chandler                                                               Sheryl Gulizia

President/CEO                                                                  PR Manager

(214) 397-0040                                                                 (650) 584-8635

george@shearwater.com                                                   sgulizia@synopsys.com