Characterization of the VEGA ASIC coupled to large area   position-sensitive Silicon Drift Detectors
  Low-noise, position-sensitive Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs) are particularly useful for experiments in which a good energy resolution combined with a large sensitive area is required, as in the case of X-ray astronomy space missions and medical applications. This paper presents the experimental characterization of VEGA, a custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) used as the front-end electronics for XDXL-2, a large-area (30.5 cm^2) SDD prototype. The ASICs were integrated on a specifically developed PCB hosting also the detector. Results on the ASIC noise performances, both stand-alone and bonded to the large area SDD, are presented and discussed. 
R. Campana, Y. Evangelista, F. Fuschino, M. Ahangarianabhari, D.   Macera, G. Bertuccio, M. Grassi, C. Labanti, M. Marisaldi...
astro-ph.IM hep-ex physics.ins-det