Xcell Journal Issue 78: Charge to Market with Xilinx 7 Series ...

DANIEL GUIDERA
XCLAMATIONS!
Xpress Yourself
in Our Caption Contest
If you’ve got an urge to let your sense of humor take wing, here’s your
opportunity. We invite readers to step up to our verbal challenge and
submit an engineering- or technology-related caption for this cartoon
by Daniel Guidera, showing an unusual avian visitor to the conference
room. The image might inspire a caption like “I told Steve not to open the
windows so wide!”
Send your entries to xcell@xilinx.com. Include your name, job title, company
affiliation and location, and indicate that you have read the contest rules at
www.xilinx.com/xcellcontest. After due deliberation, we will print the submissions
we like the best in the next issue of Xcell Journal. The winner and
two runners-up will each receive an Avnet Spartan ® -6 LX9 MicroBoard, an
entry-level development environment for evaluating the Xilinx ® Spartan ® -6
family of FPGAs (http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/
AES-S6MB-LX9.htm).
The deadline for submitting entries is 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PT) on April 1,
2012. So, put down your bird seed and get writing!
JOEL OWENS, an engineering technician
at Rockwell Collins Inc. at Dyess
Air Force Base in Texas, won first
place with this caption for the cartoon
showing food service overkill
from Issue 77 of Xcell Journal:
DANIEL GUIDERA
“Do you get the feeling our deadline
is about to be pushed up?”
Congratulations as well to
our two runners-up. Like
our winner, they will each
receive an Avnet Spartan ® -6
LX9 MicroBoard.
“Don’t get me wrong… I like it, but this
is not what I had in mind when I asked
you to build a java repository.”
– Luther Davis, electronics engineer,
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
“…and finally, in regard to our recent
request to allocate more person-hours to
the project…I believe management has
given us their answer.”
– Jeff Saarela, electrical engineer,
Astronautics Corporation of America
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. You must be 18 or older and a resident of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, or Canada (excluding Quebec) to enter. Entries must be entirely original and must be
received by 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PT) on April 1, 2012. Official rules available online at www.xilinx.com/xcellcontest. Sponsored by Xilinx, Inc. 2100 Logic Drive, San Jose, CA 95124
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