  The present thesis follows a three years' work in design, realization and
operation of electronic circuits for the readout of particle and radiation
sensors, carried out in close collaboration with the Istituto Nazionale di
Fisica Nucleare (INFN), sezione di Milano Bicocca. The work was mainly focused
to applications in particle physics experiments which are currently in the
construction phase, or to existing experiments which planned major hardware
upgrades in the next years, involving the design of new front-end circuits. The
circuits developed are in principle applicable also outside the field of pure
science research, for applications in nuclear instrumentation, medical imaging,
security and industrial scanners, and others.
