Yoav Karmon
About Yoav Karmon
Yoav Karmon is an FPGA Engineer with extensive experience in managing FPGA projects, including design and production management. He has worked in high-frequency trading applications and has held positions at several companies, including Summit Securities Group and Radix Trading LLC.
Work at Radix Trading
Yoav Karmon has been employed at Radix Trading LLC as an FPGA Engineer since 2020. In this role, he manages FPGA projects, focusing on low latency design and the integration of advanced networking stacks. His responsibilities include board and chip selection, floor planning, development, and production management. Karmon applies his extensive experience in high-frequency trading applications to enhance performance and flexibility within the organization.
Previous Experience at Summit Securities Group
Before joining Radix Trading, Yoav Karmon worked at Summit Securities Group, LLC from 2014 to 2020 as an FPGA engineer specializing in low latency trading. During his six years in Chicago, Illinois, he developed high-frequency trading applications, integrating FPGA and Linux servers to optimize performance. His work contributed to the firm's trading capabilities in a competitive market.
Background in FPGA Design and Embedded Software
Yoav Karmon has a solid background in FPGA design and embedded software engineering. He worked at IAI from 2005 to 2010 as an FPGA designer and embedded software engineer, gaining foundational experience in the field. Following this, he served as the Embedded Software and FPGA Team Leader at Sivron from 2011 to 2014, where he led projects that combined software and hardware solutions.
Education and Expertise
Yoav Karmon studied at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics from 2005 to 2009. His education provided him with a strong technical foundation, which he has built upon through years of practical experience in FPGA projects. Karmon specializes in low latency design and utilizes machine learning techniques to optimize FPGA settings in tools like Vivado and Quartus.
Technical Skills and Achievements
Karmon has developed a full hardware TCP/UDP stack with an inside chip latency of less than 50 nanoseconds, which includes advanced features such as fast retransmission and multicast Rx/Tx. He has worked with various networking stacks for FPGA, including Intilop, PLDA, LewiZ, and Eynx, showcasing his versatility and depth of knowledge in the field.