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From Hardware Emulation to High-Frequency Trading Riding the FPGA Wave

In an interview with Lauro Rizzatti, former CEO of EVE, Luc Burgun, explains how he crossed the bridge between hardware emulation and high-frequency trading.

Dr. Lauro Rizzatti, Verification Consultant, Jan. 23, 2017 – 

It's long been assumed that Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software and hardware could be applied to market segments other than semiconductor design. Former Emulation Verification Engineering (EVE) CEO Luc Burgun did just that. In an interview with verification expert Lauro Rizzatti (former general manager of EVE-USA), Luc explains how he crossed the bridge between hardware emulation and high-frequency trading (HFT) by riding the Field Programmable Gate-Array (FPGA) wave to NovaSparks.

Lauro: Four years have passed since you sold EVE to Synopsys. You started EVE in 2000 with the goal of creating a successful business developing a hardware emulator for pre-silicon testing of semiconductor designs. The challenge was to use commercial FPGAs. At that time, this field was dominated by two gorillas -- Cadence and Mentor Graphics -- both using custom silicon in their emulation platforms. The decision to use commercial FPGAs put EVE on collision route with the two giants. In fact, in the early years, EVE was viewed as a doomed startup with no chance of success. You proved the skeptics wrong.

After selling EVE to Synopsys, you joined NovaSparks as CEO. NovaSparks is the only company offering 100% hardware-based appliances for high-frequency trading of stocks, bonds, commodities, futures, and options. All other approaches are either 100% software-based or hybrid solutions combining hardware with software.

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