  Large-area silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are desired in many applications
where large surfaces have to be covered. For instance, a large area SiPM has
been developed by Hamamatsu Photonics in collaboration with the University of
Geneva, to equip gamma-ray cameras employed in imaging atmospheric Cherenkov
telescopes. Being the sensor about 1 cm$^2$, a suitable preamplification
electronics has been investigated in this work, which can deal with long pulses
induced by the large capacitance of the sensor. The so-called Multiple Use SiPM
Integrated Circuit (MUSIC), developed by the ICCUB (University of Barcelona),
is investigated as a potential front-end ASIC, suitable to cover large area
photodetection planes of gamma-ray telescopes. The ASIC offers an interesting
pole-zero cancellation (PZC) that allows dealing with long SiPM signals, the
feature of active summation of up to 8 input channels into a single
differential output and it can offer a solution for reducing power consumption
compared to discrete solutions. Measurements and simulations of MUSIC coupled
to two SiPMs developed by Hamamatsu are considered and the ASIC response is
characterized. The 5$^{th}$ generation sensor of the Low Cross Talk technology
coupled to MUSIC turns out to be a good solution for gamma-ray cameras.
