Automated trading and near-real-time financial analytics have been hot topics for some years now. Large organizations such as Bank of America deploy massive compute clusters to do such things as calculate the present value of options, or to model credit derivatives, in a virtual arms race to make trades with ever-higher levels of accuracy and [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 26, 2009
An open letter to DeepChip readers
DeepChip? What’s that?
DeepChip is the website of John Cooley and home of the perennially unofficial and irreverent ESNUG (East Coast Synopsys Users Group). DeepChip has evolved over the years – almost two decades now – into a highly popular site for discussing design methods and tools of all flavors, with a particular focus on ASIC [...]
July 19, 2009
Loring Wirbel on “Loose threads and blank slates”
Loring Wirbel (FPGA Gurus blog) provides good perspective on recent developments and setbacks in reconfigurable architectures, and the risks faced by FPGA startups in the current environment:
Loose Threads and Blank Slates
July 14, 2009
CSwitch closes its doors
On the heels of similar shutdowns last year of Mathstar and Ambric, the news broke earlier this month that reconfigurable device startup CSwitch has now shut down, the apparent victim of still-frozen capital markets.
This is unfortunate, a setback for reconfigurable computing overall. But it’s not surprising given the history of new and exotic reconfigurable devices. [...]
