Production Performance of the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker Readout System

6 pages, 9 figures.-- Prepared for 14th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference 2005 (RT2005), 4-10 Jun 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.-- Published in: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 53: 729-734 (2006), final full-text version of the paper available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2006.874727.The ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) together with the pixel and the transition radiation detectors will form the tracking system of the ATLAS experiment at LHC. It will consist of 20000 single-sided silicon microstrip sensors assembled back-to-back into modules mounted on four concentric barrels and two end-cap detectors formed by nine disks each. The SCT module production and testing has finished while the macro-assembly is well under way. After an overview of the layout and the operating environment of the SCT, a description of the readout electronics design and operation requirements will be given. The quality control procedure and the DAQ software for assuring the electrical functionality of hybrids and modules will be discussed. The focus will be on the electrical performance results obtained during the assembly and testing of the end-cap SCT modules.This work was supported in part by the EU under the RTN contract: HPRN-CT-2002-00292 Probe for New Physics.Peer reviewe