We describe the readout electronics for the STAR Time Projection Chamber. The
system is made up of 136,608 channels of waveform digitizer, each sampling 512
time samples at 6-12 Mega-samples per second. The noise level is about 1000
electrons, and the dynamic range is 800:1, allowing for good energy loss
(dE/dx) measurement for particles with energy losses up to 40 times minimum
ionizing. The system is functioning well, with more than 99% of the channels
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