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> As I know FPGA has limits on updates. HFT firms have been banging on the drum of making FPGA's infinity programmable for a decade and lots of commercial FPGA
by chollida1 10y ago
> As I know FPGA has limits on updates.
HFT firms have been banging on the drum of making FPGA's infinity programmable for a decade and lots of commercial FPGA's can be re-flashed now without worrying about the number of times you do it.
I've seen re-flash counts up to 100,000 times.
Hey put this in the "what has HFT actually done for the world" list of answers:)
- astrodust 10y agoI've never seen an advertised limit on FPGAs. You'd probably grow old and die before you ran out of reflashes since that process takes a fair amount of time. 100,000 flashes at even five minutes each is over a year of relentless flashing.
- rhizome 10y agoIs there a Jenkins plugin for that? :)
- adwn 10y agoWhat are you talking about? > HFT firms have been banging on the drum of making FPGA's infinity programmable for a decade That's strange, because FPGAs have been infinitely reprogrammable for longer than that. > lots of commercial FPGA's can be re-flashed now That's even stranger, because the vast majority of commercial FPGAs are not flash-based, but SRAM-based and can be reprogrammed as often as the registers in your CPU. Besides, HFT firms would be using SRAM-based FPGAs because they are faster and larger than flash-based ones, the advantages of flash-based ones are useless to them. > "what has HFT actually done for the world" Well, not this, that's for sure.