Title
Application-specific fault-tolerant architecture synthesis for digital microfluidic biochips
Abstract
Microfluidic-based biochips are replacing the conventional biochemical analyzers, and are able to integrate onchip all the necessary functions for biochemical analysis using microfluidics. The digital microfluidic biochips are based on the manipulation of liquids not as a continuous flow, but as discrete droplets on an array of electrodes. Microfluidic operations, such as transport, mixing, split, are performed on this array by routing the corresponding droplets on a series of electrodes. Researchers have proposed several approaches for the synthesis of digital microfluidic biochips. All previous work assumes that the biochip architecture is given, and most approaches consider a rectangular shape for the electrode array. However, non-regular application-specific architectures are common in practice. Hence, in this paper, we propose an approach to the application-specific architecture synthesis. Our approach can also help the designer to increase the yield by introducing redundant electrodes to tolerate permanent faults. The proposed architecture synthesis algorithm has been evaluated using several benchmarks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ASPDAC.2013.6509697
Design Automation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
application specific integrated circuits,electrodes,lab-on-a-chip,microfluidics,network synthesis,application-specific fault-tolerant architecture synthesis,biochemical analyzer,digital microfluidic biochip,discrete droplet,electrode array,nonregular application-specific architecture,redundant electrode
Application specific,Biochip,Electrode array,Fault tolerant architecture,Computer science,Microfluidics,Network synthesis filters,Application-specific integrated circuit,Electronic engineering,Lab-on-a-chip
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6961
978-1-4673-3029-9
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mirela Alistar1294.28
Paul Pop289968.16
Jan Madsen357656.90