FERMI - A digital front end readout micro-system for calorimetric detectors

The activities within the FERMI Collaboration were completed by the successful assembly of multi-chip module demonstrators fulfilling the technical requirements of the LHC generation of high performance detectors like CMS ECAL. Throughout the project, the Collaboration has been concentrating on providing architectures that fulfil the requirements set by the interested experiments in the domain of calorimeter readout. Currently, readout system architectures based on experience acquired through FERMI are being implemented in CMS and the ATLAS Tiles calorimeter. The final status of the project is presented, together with a brief description of some ASICs developed by the FERMI collaboration.