X C LA MATIONS!
Xpress Yourself
in Our Caption Contest
DANIEL GUIDERA
MARTIN SCHULMAN, technical director at Symantec Corp. (Herndon, Va.), won a shiny new Digilent Zynq Zybo board with this caption for the robot cartoon in Issue 91 of Xcell Journal:
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hat do you do when you can’t make a decision? Heads-or-tails is one solution. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe is another. And then, you can always throw darts. At least, that’s the route taken by the frustrated designer pictured in this issue’s cartoon. What’s his problem? We won’t know until a creative contributor writes an engineering- or technology-related caption putting the right spin on the situation. The image might inspire a caption like “Stumped by the boss’ verification plan, Bob resorted to an old-school random-test generation technique.” 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 will receive a Digilent Zynq Zybo board, featuring the Xilinx® Zynq®7000 All Programmable SoC (http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-andkits/1-4AZFTE.htm). Two runners-up will gain notoriety, fame and have their captions, names and affiliations featured in the next issue. The contest begins at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time on July 10, 2015. All entries must be received by the sponsor by 5 p.m. PT on Oct. 1, 2015.
“Art had never seen a robot flash mob’s rendition of ‘YMCA.’”
Congratulations as well to our two runners-up: “Bob discovers that ‘Klaatu barada nikto’ wasn’t gonna work this time.” — Michael Brown, software engineering manager, Lumenera Corp. (Ottawa, Canada) “Help! Help! I just saw a REAL bug, ick, I ran it over.” – Frank Perron, software engineer, Qualcomm Inc. (Boxborough, Mass.)
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. Contest begins on July 10, 2015. Entries must be received by 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PT) Oct. 1, 2015. Official rules are available online at www.xilinx.com/xcellcontest. Sponsored by Xilinx, Inc. 2100 Logic Drive, San Jose, CA 95124. 70
Xcell Journal
Third Quarter 2015