cfBSMEngine (cf_bsm.hpp) - 2023.2 English

Vitis Libraries

Release Date
2023-12-20
Version
2023.2 English

This is the code for the solver itself, and it is templated to accept different data types. It uses standard C++ and allows the code to be easily used in a software only environment by swapping to the standard math namespace. The code is a straightforward implementation of the closed form equations above, with some small optimizations for FPGA implementation. In particular, it is clear from the equations that the price and Greeks contain many of the same elements, so the code implementation is structured to calculate these sub-components and reuse them in the subsequent calculations. It separates the computation into a number of smaller steps which can be computed in parallel. The process also improves throughput and reduces resource utilization. Another optimization is the calculation which require the Normal CDF (often called Phi). It is resource heavy in standard math library, so an approximation is used instead of the accurate result.