DIGITAL READ-OUT CHIP FOR SILICON STRIP DETECTORS AT SDC

At Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, in collaboration with University of California - Santa Cruz and the University of Oxford, we were involve d in the design and development of the digital readout schemes for the front end of the silicon strip detector at SDC. As a result of our wo rk, we have designed and built a 128 channel integrated circuit to buf fer hit patterns and to transmit them out of the detector module. This integrated circuit is referred to as DDR2RH (Digital Data Read-out Ra diation Hardened Version)