Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001140361-25-007235
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Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: 424B5
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, innovation in chip and systems design often hinges on providing products “better,” “sooner,” and “cheaper” than competitors. The design of these chips and systems is extremely complex and necessitates state-of-the-art solutions. Over the past several years, market verticals including AI, 5G, automotive and cloud computing infrastructure have contributed to the ongoing demand for our products and services.

Synopsys’ silicon to systems design solutions are designed to help our customers—chip and system engineers and software developers—speed up time to market, achieve the highest quality of results, mitigate risk, and maximize profitability.

#### General Information
Synopsys was incorporated in North Carolina in 1986 and re-incorporated in the State of Delaware in 1987. Our headquarters are located at 675 Almanor Avenue, Sunnyvale, California 94085, and our headquarters’ telephone number is (650) 584-5000. Our website is https://www.synopsys.com/. We have approximately 116 offices worldwide. Our common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “SNPS.” The information on, or accessible through, our websites is not part of this prospectus.

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### RISK FACTORS
You should carefully consider, among other things, the matters discussed under “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in other documents that we include or incorporate by reference into this prospectus.

### USE OF PROCEEDS
Unless the applicable prospectus supplement indicates otherwise, we intend to use net proceeds from the sale of the securities offered hereby for general corporate purposes, including, but not limited to, to refinance or to repay outstanding indebtedness, for the acquisition of other companies or businesses or for the repurchase, redemption, or retirement of Synopsys’ common stock. We may temporarily invest funds that are not immediately needed for these purposes in short-term marketable securities.

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DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES The following is a summary of certain general terms and provisions of the debt securities that we may offer from time to time in one or more series and the indenture that will govern the debt securities, but it is not complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all of the provisions of an indenture (the “indenture”) to