The particle physics community has agreed that the ILC will be the next global
accelerator project. Following the discovery of Higgs at CERN, the Japanese
government has expressed interest in hosting such a machine. This project
can be realized in two steps of which the first one aims at a collision
energy of 250 GeV, enabling precision measurements of the newly discovered
Higgs particle. In a second step the energy will be increased to 500 GeV for
top studies and measurements of various Higgs couplings etc.  An upgrade to
1000 GeV collision energy will also be possible if it is justified by the
results of the first two ILC stages and/or the LHC. The ILC and its expected
performance will be described.

Lund is a member of the ILD (International Large Detector) collaboration,
which envisages a large TPC as the central tracking detector. The
responsibility of Lund within this project is to develop the electronics
for the readout of the TPC via the new Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD).
The principle of MPGD:s will be explained with the emphasis on the electronics
development of the Lund group. Some results from test measurements will also
be shown.