Development of an FPGA-Based Readout System and Functional Characterization of a Custom NSX1 ASIC for X-ray instrumentation

Nabin Poudyal, Wayne Baumgartner, Sukanya Chakrabarti +6

We developed an FPGA-based readout system for a front-end ASIC (NSX1) with 64 channels to read out a large- area silicon drift detector used in X-ray detection instruments such as…