  The Cherenkov Telescope Array will provide unprecedented sensitivity and
angular resolution to gamma rays across orders of magnitude in energy. Above 1
TeV up to around 300 TeV an array of Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will cover
several kilometres on the ground. The Compact High-Energy Camera (CHEC) is a
proposed option for the camera of the SSTs. CHEC contains 2048 pixels of
physical size about 6 mm x 6 mm, leading to a field of view of over 8 degrees.
Electronics based on custom ASICs (TARGET) and FPGAs sample incoming signals at
a gigasample per second and provide a flexible triggering scheme. Waveforms for
every pixel in every event are read out without loss at over 600 events per
second. A telescope prototype in Meudon, Paris, saw first Cherenkov light from
air showers in late 2015, using the first CHEC prototype. Research and
development for CHEC is currently focussed on taking advantage of the latest
generation of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs).
