Synopsys Inc sent its chief financial officer Brooke Seawell to savour the joys of Frisco, and he told the conference he expects overseas sales for the chip design software specialist to continue to increase as a proportion of total sales: Our international revenue has continued to increase year by year, for this fiscal year (to September 30) expectations are that in both Europe and Japan revenues should be slightly in excess of 20% of the total in each of those regions; North American sales will be a little over 50%, other Asian countries 5% he said; overseas sales last fiscal were 45% of the total.