( SNUG 05 Item 1 ) ----------------------------------------------- [12/20/05]

Subject: The Synopsys Customer Demographics

A MINI CENSUS -- This data comes from the customer SNUG'05 survey itself.  A
total of 504 out of the 1,045 SNUG'05 attendees responded.

Here's the stats on the types of designs these engineers are creating:

          Standard Cell / SoC  #################################### 73%
                  Full Custom  ######### 17%
              Structured ASIC  ##### 11%
                   Gate Array  # 1%
                    FPGA/CPLD  ## 4%
                        other  # 3%

The speed, size, and process of the chips they're designing:

                  1 - 100 Mhz  ### 6%
                101 - 200 Mhz  ########## 19%
                201 - 300 Mhz  ############# 26%
                301 - 400 Mhz  ######## 17%
                401 - 500 Mhz  ##### 10%
                   500+   Mhz  ########### 22%

               1 - 300 Kgates  ###### 13%
            301 - 1000 Kgates  ############## 27%
           1001 - 2000 Kgates  ##### 12%
           2001 - 3000 Kgates  ## 4%
           3001 - 4000 Kgates  ### 7%
           4001 - 5000 Kgates  #### 9%
              5000+    Kgates  ############### 29%

                      250+ nm  # 1%
                       250 nm  # 1%
                       180 nm  ##### 11%
                       150 nm  ## 5%
                       130 nm  ###################### 44%
                        90 nm  ################# 34%
                        65 nm  ## 3%
                        45 nm  # 1%

The production quantity of their current design:

                under 10,000 units  ###### 13%
             10,000 - 20,000 units  ## 5%
             20,001 - 50,000 units  ###### 13%
            50,001 - 100,000 units  ### 7%
           100,001 - 500,000 units  ####### 14%
         500,001 - 1,000,000 units  ###### 11%
       1,000,001 - 5,000,000 units  ######### 18%
              over 5,000,000 units  ######### 18%

Their backend flow:

      Hand-off backend To ASIC fab  ###################### 44%

             We use Avanti backend  ################### 38%
            We use Cadence backend  ######## 16%
              We use Magma backend  ### 6%
      We use ASIC vendor's backend  ## 5%
            We use our own backend  # 2%
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