  SOXS will be the new spectroscopic facility for the ESO NTT telescope able to
cover the optical and NIR bands by using two different arms: the UV-VIS
(350-850 nm), and the NIR (800-2000 nm). In this article, we describe the
development status of the visible camera cryostat, the architecture of the
acquisition system and the progress in the electronic design. The UV-VIS
detector system is based on a CCD detector 44-82 from e2v, a custom detector
head, coupled with the ESO continuous flow cryostats (CFC), a custom cooling
system, based on a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), and the New General
Controller (NGC) developed by ESO. This paper outlines the development status
of the system, describes the design of the different parts that make up the
UV-VIS arm and is accompanied by a series of information describing the SOXS
design solutions in the mechanics and in the electronics parts. The first tests
of the detector system with the UV-VIS camera will be shown.
