I hear that some Hedge Funds and Institutional Investors are going beyond HFT trading by doing Parallel programming of heterogeneous systems using power of CPU, GPU and FPGA for ultimate ultra low latency trading system. This system enqables them to complete the trading process in couple of micro seconds, till date its the fast system [...]
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FPGA technology into the ultra low latency space. The Next Wave of HFT Technology?
Posted: 07/29/2011 in Trading SoftwareTags: Achronix, Actel, Application-specific integrated circuit, Central processing unit, Field-programmable gate array, Field-programmable gate array (FPGA), Hardware description language, high-frequency trading (HFT) solutions, Quicklogic, Ultra low latency connectivity, Ultra low latency trading, VHDL and Verilog, Xilinx
Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology continues to gain momentum in Stock Trading for Ultra low latency connectivity and high-frequency trading (HFT) solutions. This new technology invented by Xilinx, have gone from being simple glue logic chips to actually replacing custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and processors for signal processing and control applications. Because FPGAs run as an [...]