Electronic Readout
Developed at Washington University
(St. Louis) and Southern
Illinois University,
With 2000
channels to readout, cost of “traditional”
readout is prohibitive.
Application Specific Integrated
Circuit
Design
Includes:
• Multiple Preamps
• Shapers
• Discriminator
• Time to amplitude
converters
4 Ch prototype
16 Ch Production Chip
This chip board
+ one VME module replaces 64
pre-amp’s, 32 Shapers, 32 TDCs and 32 ADCs