Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
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Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
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 CASH      
 INCENTIVE 
 PAYMENT   
 ($)       | RATIONALE                                                                                                                      |
| Sassine Ghazi       |     | 1,680,000 |           |             | 1,709,400 |     |                | 3,780,000 |     | 2,688,000 |           | Increased to reflect critical contributions to our fiscal 2024 financial results and key strategic initiatives.                |
| Shelagh Glaser      |     |   600,000 |           |             |   610,500 |     |                | 1,350,000 |     |   900,000 |           | Increased to reflect contributions to our fiscal 2024 financial results and leadership of our finance function.                |
| Rick Mahoney        |     |   675,000 |           |             |   686,813 |     |                | 1,518,750 |     | 1,080,000 |           | Increased to reflect contributions to our fiscal 2024 financial results and leadership of our sales and go-to-market function. |
| John F. Runkel, Jr. |     |   360,000 |           |             |   366,300 |     |                |   810,000 |     |   504,000 |           | Increased to reflect contributions to our fiscal 2024 financial results and leadership of our legal function.                  |

#### 2025 Proxy Statement71
| PROPOSAL 4 — Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation |

Equity Awards

We believe that equity awards align the interests of our NEOs with the long-term interests of our stockholders by rewarding long-term value creation and by providing retention incentives through multi-year vesting periods.

#### FISCAL 2024 EQUITY AWARDS – ANNUAL EQUITY AWARDS
Our Compensation Committee granted the following annual equity awards in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 to our NEOs under our 2006 Employee Plan:

| Annual performance-based restricted stock units (Annual PRSUs), which are eligible to vest only upon the achievement of pre-established performance criteria over a three-year performance period. See table below for more information on the Fiscal 2024 PRSU Program. |     | Annual time-based restricted stock units (Annual RSUs), which vest in four equal annual installments to contribute to longer-term retention. Annual RSUs also promote long-term performance as their value is directly linked to increases and decreases in our