Readout board validation setup for the ALICE Time Of Flight detector upgrade

The new Digital Readout Module, named DRM2, designed for the upgrade of the readout of the ALICE TOF detector at CERN, has been produced and is ready to face the commissioning stage. It is a narrow 9U VME card (16 cm x 33 cm) with the goal to read out the TDC (Time to Digital Converter) chips on 9 or 10 VME boards, named TRMs (TDC Readout Module). A test setup for the DRM2 production card validation was designed and built, to check and validate the correct behavior of the produced boards. The test setup and related validation results will be described in detail in this paper.