Linker Chips

• Segment linking is done using programmable “Linker” chips.

• Each chip contains all the roads needed to find tracks with transverse momentum > 1.5 GeV/c

• Each chip processes 1.25o of the chamber, and outputs the best found track in that phi-slice to the next stage in the trigger.

• There are a total of 288 Linker chips needed.

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