Jan 11, 2021 / 06:15PM GMT
Richard Frank Valera - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division - Senior Analyst
All right. Well, welcome to the afternoon sessions of the 23rd Annual Needham Growth Conference. I'm Rich Valera. I cover technical software for Needham & Company, and it's my pleasure for this next session to have a fireside chat with the CFO of Synopsys, Trac Pham.
And to kick things off. First of all, welcome Trac. Thank you very much for joining us. Happy New Year.
Trac Pham - Synopsys, Inc. - CFO
Thanks, Rich. Just glad to be joining you guys for the conference.
Questions and Answers:
Richard Frank Valera - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division - Senior AnalystSo maybe to kick things off and kind of level set the audience. You had a pretty remarkable fiscal '20, which you have completed since you're a little bit of an off fiscal year. You exceeded on all your key metrics and upped your initial guidance, grew your backlog. You sort of wouldn't have known there was a pandemic raging in the world behind