September 2018 - Netcope Technologies Announces the Appointment of Sarsen Technology Ltd as UK Distributor

As you may have seen in the news this week and across social media, the team at Sarsen Technology Limited is very excited to be working with Netcope Technologies as their exclusive sales and marketing partner in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

If you haven't heard of Netcope Technologies they are about to make a big splash here in the UK.

Based in Brno in the Czech Republic, Netcope specialises in high-performance networking solutions, including state-of-the-art FPGA technology for packet capture, network packet processing (NPP) and low-latency trading applications.


Nigel Norman, Managing Director of Sarsen Technology Limited added, “The embedded FPGA market is changing fast as FPGA technology becomes ever more widely adopted. Our customers, especially in the cyber security, networking and financial trading markets, are looking for more complete solutions from Sarsen Technology rather than just FPGA hardware and software drivers".

Netcope Technologies has innovative, exciting and customer-proven FPGA solutions that have our engineering team chomping at the bit. Their 200GBPS Ethernet adapter will give our networking product customers a significant processing boost, and Netcope’s P4 smart NIC programming solution will rapidly change the way that network data plane processing is achieved.

FinTech customers won't miss out either - Netcope's wire speed packet capture processing is a game changer for low-latency packet processing and the low latency financial trading solution, Tradecope, is a powerful solution for our high frequency trading customers.

We are looking forward to busy but exciting times ahead!

For more information about the new relationship and how it could benefit your FPGA networking application please contact Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or email info@sarsen.net.

FINTECH Altera FPGA Solutions

High performance computing using FPGA technology is a key technology for the financial services industry. High frequency automated financial trading uses models and simulations to provide real-time assistance in decision making.

BittWare’s ultra-low latency hardware is based on Altera’s industry leading Arria 10, Stratix V, and Arria V FPGAs and provides CPU offload along with the highest performance transceivers. These boards are a robust solution for Financial Acceleration applications, providing the ultimate in low latency with up to 100GigE straight to the FPGA (no external PHY) and optional TCP/IP offload engine.

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BittWare offers FPGA-based PCIe COTS solutions to address the challenges of developing financial applications for the financial acceleration/HFT (High Frequency Trading) market.

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As well as offering high performance FPGA hardware for financial trading Sarsen can call on the expertise of a number of consultants who specialise in software and hardware integration, allowing us to provide a complete solution for your low latency and high speed financial trading requirements.

One of the companies we work with is PA Consulting, which has just introduced hardware accelerator solutions specifically for low latency networks. The Hardware Accelerator identifies bottlenecks in your current infrastructure, and highlights where improvements to transaction speed and volume can be made, for example by speeding up algorithms or by removing shared interfaces such as Ethernet/IP connections.

Contact us to find out more about the range of FPGA solutions we can offer for the Fintech market space - info@sarsen.net or 01672 511166.

OpenCL support for even more Altera Stratix V variants on BittWare's S5-PCIe-HQ PCIe board...

The Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) programming model is supported on Altera’s Stratix® V FPGA architecture and BittWare’s Stratix V FPGA COTS hardware, providing an incredibly powerful solution for system acceleration.

BittWare is a member of Altera’s Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL.

The S5-PCIe-HQ (S5PH-Q) Altera Stratix® V half-length PCIe COTS board is optimised for the most current Altera device architectures and design software, and is supported by Altera’s SDK for OpenCL. The Altera® SDK for OpenCL provides a design environment enabling users to easily implement OpenCL applications on Altera’s FPGAs.

BittWare announced at SuperComputing 2013 (Nov) that OpenCL support has now been expanded to additional Stratix V variants on their S5-PCIe-HQ (S5PH-Q) PCI Express board. FPGA options now include GSMD5, GSED8, GXEA7 and GXEAB devices.

What Are the Benefits of OpenCL for FPGAs? 

• Faster time-to-market using the OpenCL C-based parallel programming language as opposed to low-level hardware description language (HDL). 
• Quick design exploration by working at a higher level of design abstraction. 
• Easy design re-use by re-targeting existing OpenCL C code to current and future FPGAs.
• Faster design completion by generating an FPGA implementation of OpenCL C code in a single step, bypassing the manual timing closure efforts and implementation of communication interfaces between the FPGA, host, and external memories. 
• Increased performance by offloading performance-intensive functions from the host processor to the FPGA. 
• Significantly lower power by using the Altera SDK for OpenCL which generates only the logic needed to deliver. 

BittWare’s OpenCL Developer’s Bundle provides the tools necessary to begin developing applications for the Altera Stratix V using OpenCL, including the S5PH-Q board, a breakout board, the Altera Quartus II software, the Altera SDK for OpenCL, and the Altera USB Byte Blaster for downloading configuration and program data to the Stratix V FPGA.

The Open CL Developers Bundle is available at a special introductory price. For more information please contact the Sarsen Team on +44 1672 511166, or email us - info@sarsen.net

All the way from across the pond.... Sarsen welcomes visitors from BittWare next week.

Next week Sarsen are playing host to Jeff Milrod and Chad Hamilton from BittWare, and we’ll be taking them into the city to visit some of our customers in the Financial Services sector.

Chad Hamilton and Jeff Milrod of BittWare

BittWare has designed and developed a family of PCIe format Altera Stratix V FPGA hardware optimised for this marketplace. These kinds of applications require ultra-low latency feed handling as well as super fast analysis and data correlation. BittWare offers FPGA-based PCIe COTS solutions to address the challenges of developing financial applications.

S5-PCIe - Altera Stratix® V GX/GS FPGA PCIe board from BittWare

High frequency automated financial trading uses simulations to provide real-time assistance in decision making. With multiple lanes of 10GigE straight to the FPGA and PCI Express Gen 2, combined with on-board memory and optional TOE, as well as additional built-in support for 40 GigE and PCIe Gen3, the financial industry has taken notice of BittWare’s’ range of Stratix V boards.

In addition to the hardware, the Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) programming model is now supported on Altera’s Stratix® V FPGA architecture and BittWare’s Stratix V FPGA COTS hardware, providing an incredibly powerful solution for system acceleration.

BittWare's OpenCL Bundle is available from Sarsen Technology

For more information about how these solutions could benefit your application please get in touch with the Sarsen Team, on +44 16672 511177, or email us – info@sarsen.net

It's Tuesday, and the Spotlight is on Trenton Systems....

Trenton Systems was established in 1977, and has become a global leader in the design and manufacture of board level products and fully integrated computer systems that address the critical needs of industries such as defense, test and measurement and financial trading.

Trenton Systems board level manufacturing facilities are located in Utica, New York, and the system integration, sales and engineering teams are located at the Trenton headquarters in Gainesville, Georgia.

Trenton delivered some of the first single board computers with advanced dual-processor architectures. They are also one of the founding member companies of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group® (PICMG®), and played a key leadership role with regard to writing and publishing industry standards such as PICMG 1.0 and PICMG 1.3.

The financial trading industry is an exciting, fast moving environment, which requires high performance products, expandability and long-life cycles – not to mention enclosure customisations that satisfy environmental variables!
Perfect then, that Trenton offer exactly that!

There are some significant advantages to choosing a Trenton Systems Single Board Computer, Backplane or Embedded Motherboard -

• Customer-driven computing solutions satisfy the most demanding requirements
• Board-level products designed, manufactured and supported in the United States
• Total BIOS control allows modifications that support complex integrated systems
• Backplane designs allow unique ISA, PCI, PCI Express 1.0 and 2.0 configurations
• Five-year factory warranty on all SBCs, backplanes & embedded motherboards
• Board-level products utilize long-life components for 7+ year product availability
• Manufacturing and computer integration facilities are ISO 9001:2008 Certified

For more information on the benefits of using a Trenton Systems product in your application, please call the sales team on +44 1672 511166, or email us! We look forward to hearing from you.