FPGA Accelerated Market Data
FPGA Accelerated LSE Group Ticker plant (Feb 2016)
Level-1 full depth incremental feed
Fast path on FPGA
Recovery path on CPU
Performance (end-to-end latency)
10x latency improvement over software (Average > 10 us)
Negligible Jitter (<1 us)
1.4 milion updates per second
Single FPGA replaces 7 software instances (distributed over multiple physical servers)