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First microelectronics activities in Turin started in the early '90s with contributions of the Giancarlo Bonazzola's group to the development of the front-end electronics chip named FABRIC [1] devoted to the readout of the silicon strips of the NA50 experiment at CERN. The first chip prototype entirely designed using local resources only, named TOA16 (a 16 channels chip for the read out of silicon microstrip detectors for particle tracking) has been produced in 1994. Systematic design activities began in 1995 with the development of the front-end electronics for the Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) apparatus at CERN and of the electronics for medical dosimetry within the TERA hadrontherapy foundation.
[1] Fast bipolar front-end for binary readout of silicon strip detectors
W. Dabrowski, G. Bonazzola, P. De Remigis, P. Giubellino
http://cds.cern.ch/record/261878/files/ppe-94-055.pdf
W. Dabrowski, Joel DeWitt FABRIC
The silicon multiplicity detector for the NA50 experiment at CERN