Abstract :
The Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs) provide, through the measurement of the drift time of the charge deposited by the particle which crosses the detector, information on the impact point and on the energy deposition. The foreseen readout scheme is based on a single chip implementation of an integrated circuit that includes low-noise amplification, fast analog storage and analog to digital conversion, thus avoiding the problems related to the analog signal transmission. A multi-event buffer that reduces the transmission bandwidth and a data compression/zero suppression unit complete the architecture.
In this paper the system components design is described, together with the results of the first prototypes.
