Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001140361-25-026144
Chunk: 13

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form: 425
Chunk 13
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 removal in accordance with Article III, Section 4, resignation in accordance with Article III, Section 2 or death or until his or her successor shall be elected
                        and take office.

SECTION 6. POWERS. The Board of Directors shall exercise all of the powers of the Company, except such as are by law, by the Certificate of Incorporation
                        or by these Bylaws conferred upon or reserved to the stockholders.

SECTION 7. COMMITTEES. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the Board of Directors, designate one or more
                        committees consisting of one or more directors of the Company. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the
                        committee. In the absence or disqualification of any member of such committee or committees, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he, she or they constitute a quorum,
                        may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.

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Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors creating such committee or in these Bylaws, shall have and may
                        exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Company and may authorize the seal, if any, of the Company to be affixed to all papers which may require it; provided , however , that no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to amending the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws or to approve or adopt, or recommend to the stockholders, any action or matter
                        expressly required by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“ DGCL ”) to be submitted to stockholders for approval.

SECTION 8. MEETINGS. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held without notice at such places and times as shall be determined from time to
                        time by resolution of the Board of Directors.

Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the President or by the Secretary of the Company on the written request of any two directors
                        on at least two days’ prior written notice to each director and shall be held at such place or places as may be determined by the director or as may be stated in the notice of the meeting.

Unless otherwise restricted by