Hodoscopes are a common addition to astroparticle experiments in which reconstruction of an
incident particle’s path is required. Traditionally, hodoscope designs were composed of strips
of thin ( mm diameter) scintillating fibers woven into bundles and read by photomultiplier tubes
(PMTs). As the surface area of PMT faces are much larger than that of the fiber, multiple fibers were
traditionally read by a single PMT. This requires careful selection in order not to lose positional
precision. Recent development of compact silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) whose surface area
is on the order of square millimeters makes it possible to mate a single fiber to a single SiPM
without optical weaving. However, this increases the number of electronic channels compared to
the traditional method. We investigate the performance of a method by which the signals from
multiple of fiber-SiPM pairs are combined electronically, allowing multiple SiPM signals to be
read out by a single electronic channel. Here, we show the results of the lab test and simulation
studies and discuss the implications for the potential applications.