Design and development of the Control Board for the LHCb Silicon Tracker

This note is intended to give a detailed definition of the Silicon Tracker Control Board (CB) design and use. This electronic card is composed of several elements and it is the hardware part of the Silicon Tracker (ST) that will fulfil both the ST ECS (Experiment Control System) and TFC (Timing and Fast Control) tasks next to the detector. A description of the CB functionalities will be shown as well as a detailed description of its design and development.