TA-CON-2016-041

PANDA is a key experiment of the future FAIR facility and the Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) is the innermost part of its tracking system. It will be composed of four barrels and six disks, instrumented with silicon hybrid pixel detectors and double-sided microstrip detectors.
PASTA (PAnda STrip ASIC) is the readout chip for strip sensors.
An overview of the chip, of its readout system and of the first results of its characterization will be presented.
Supported by BMBF, HIC4FAIR and JCHP.