A big thank you to everyone who participated in our contest last week! We loved hearing about how our blog posts have inspired you. Congratulations to David Hoelscher for submitting the winning response: “I found the three-part series about Multicore Navigator Tips 'n Tricks very helpful in understanding the various ways it can be used. In particular, using the Queue Manager for Notification purposes as a means to avoid moving data and improve efficiency was very appealing.”
We have had a great two years on the Multicore Mix. We thought it would be an appropriate time to take a look back at a few of our top blog posts and the accompanying comments over the years.
- Do we really need ‘Transactional Memory’? (By one and zero) explained what Transactional Memory is, how it works and asked the question do we need it?
- Anybody got tools? (By Tom Flanagan) helped familiarize our Multicore Mix readers with the next steps after selecting a snappy new multicore device!
- Happy Anniversary, Multicore Mix! Celebrate by entering a MONTH of contests! Everyone loves a contest! Last year, we celebrated our first anniversary by giving away a prize bag to a fan of the Multicore Mix. We chose our favorite answer from readers who wrote why they were a Multicore Mix fan in 50 words or less.
- Share your love of MULTICORE – and win BIG! This contest was all about our LOVE for the readers of the Multicore Mix. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, we asked readers to tell us why they loved multicore for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card and a box of chocolates!
- The answer is “42.” What was the question? (By one and zero) discussed programming language and how to know which is best suited for multicore architecture.
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If you didn’t enter the contest last week, don’t worry! Since it’s our SECOND anniversary here at the Multicore Mix, we are going to have TWO contests this month. This time we want to know what you would like to see covered in our third year. Do you want to see more about tradeshows, design tips, tutorials or even trends in vertical markets? We want to know!
To enter this contest, comment on this post to let us know what you want to see in the next year, and our bloggers will select their favorite suggestion based on which one they feel is most relevant and interesting to our multicore audience. You have until midnight CST on Sunday, May 26, to enter! The winning comment will get a $100 Visa gift card and a multicore T-shirt. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, May 28.
CONTEST DETAILS: This contest is open to all residents of the United States. TI employees and their family members cannot enter the contest. Prizes will be shipped via Fedex Ground and cannot be shipped to P.O. Box addresses. Entries will be judged based on what our Multicore Mix bloggers consider to be the best comment on what they want to see in the Multicore Mix this next year. The selected winner must respond to the email notification within 72 hours or they will forfeit the $100 Visa gift card and multicore T-shirt. If the selected winner does not respond within 72 hours, an alternate winner will be chosen based on originality and content of response by Multicore Mix bloggers.