Testing the New Readout Hardware for the ITS Detector at ALICE

The ALICE detector at CERN will be undergoing major upgrades to handle the increased collision rate of the LHC during Run 3, as well as to achieve higher precision particle tracking. The Inner Tracking System (ITS), a detector component which plays a pivotal role in the reconstruction of secondary vertices from heavy flavor particle decays, will be completely replaced by a seven layer silicon pixel detector. In order to handle the higher data throughput from the increased collision rate, the production of new readout hardware for the ITS is a necessity. In this talk we will give an overview of the ALICE ITS upgrade, and detail the testing procedures using the new Readout Hardware on the software level.