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There are HFT trading systems implemented in FPGAs. They're written in Verilog. Here's one system:

http://www.bittware.com/fpga-dsp-applications/applications-s...

Want to work in that field? Know VHDL/Verilog, Linux, networking down to the wire level?

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/1821955