Hard Coding: The Benefits and Drawbacks of FPGAs

daryan-dehghanpisheh — Daryan Dehghanpisheh, Intel

- By James Rundle
- @JimRundle
- 27 Jan 2012

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At the European Trading Architecture Summit, hosted by Waters in London at the end of last year, the acronym on every delegate’s lips was FPGA, or field-programmable gate array. Recent high-profile FPGA implementations by institutions such as Nomura and JPMorgan have drawn attention to the technology, which is able to perform complex mathematical tasks such as portfolio valuations in blisteringly short time periods.

But FPGAs aren’t without their drawbacks, and the technology is not so new.

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