Matthew Grosvenor

As FPGAs become part of the standard kit for an expanding range of low-latency, high-throughput applications, more and more software developers find themselves wanting (or needing) to develop FPGA logic to stay relevant. But circuit-based hardware is a whole new universe to someone with a career spent in an instruction-based world.

For processors to be useful, they must communicate with memory, devices, and other processors. The means by which such communication can (or can soon) take place comes in a wide range of silicon and protocols such as PCIe, QPI, NVLINK, OpenCAPI, CCIX, CXL, GenZ, and of course Ethernet and InfiniBand.

The proliferation of double-digit nanosecond (FPGA based) trading systems is forcing firms to measure things at finer and finer accuracies. Several vendors now offer sub-nanosecond or “picosecond-scale” network measurement technologies.

The proliferation of double-digit nanosecond (FPGA based) trading systems is forcing firms to measure things at finer and finer accuracies. Several vendors now offer sub-nanosecond or “picosecond-scale” network measurement technologies.

The proliferation of double-digit nanosecond (FPGA based) trading systems is forcing firms to measure things at finer and finer accuracies. Several vendors now offer sub-nanosecond or “picosecond-scale” network measurement technologies.

Maintaining event intelligence in electronic trading continues to get more challenging. Understanding events with clarity requires capturing those events, understanding exactly when they happened, and pulling them into meaningful analysis, whether that’s for operations management or strategy development and backtesting.

Wire capture is a crucial element of trading systems today, with the resulting data serving as a source not only for operational monitoring but also for the development and backtesting of trading strategies. And like other parts of a trading system, capture architectures can't stand still.