Development of a fast readout system of an X-ray CCD

In the course of developing a fast readout system of an X-ray CCD camera with low noise using HPK-CCD, we have succeeded in making a clock generator to read data from a CCD with the speed of 2 Mpixel/s. This generator is fabricated from commercially available products in order to simplify the manufacturing procedure. To determine the noise of the system, we are evaluating the noise from each part which conceivably contributes. It is known that the readout noise depends on the clock speed. Thus, to begin with, we measured the dependency of the system noise from the ADC in the data acquisition system on its clock speed.