Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a digital circuit or in other words, configured ASIC. Wherever there is an extremely large quantity of data to process and the lag time in processing can be a risk, FPGA plays an important role in delivering the data processing with high accuracy and minimum time-lag.
FPGA can solve computable issues with huge-volume and highly unstructured data. The advantage of FPGA is that processing of data is faster because of its parallelism and it's precise because of the number of logic gates being used.
FPGA speed up the financial data processing because it is parallel in nature and delivers the assessment with high accuracy and minimum lag time which allows the traders to trade within nanoseconds.
FPGA is a circuit which can provide deterministic latency because there is no branching of software or anything which can lead to non-determinism, which means no jitter and foreseeable reaction times, and placing trades in a timely manner reduces risk.
FPGA allows unstructured data processing such as video/image processing which means FPGA can consider the effect of the non-linear factor of the market to calculate the risk more accurately such as the effect of news, social media or cumulative market psychology.
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