  The ATLAS experiment, at the Large Hadron Collider, will incorporate
discrete, high-resolution tracking sub-systems in the form of segmented silicon
detectors with 40MHz radiation-hard readout electronics. In the region closest
to the pp interaction point, the thin silicon tiles will be segmented into a
pixel geometry providing two-dimensional space-point information. The current
status of the ATLAS pixel project will be presented with an emphasis on the
performance of the front-end electronics and prototype sensors.
