TY - GEN
T1 - Reliability-aware synthesis and fault test of fully programmable valve arrays (FPVAs)
AU - Li, Bing
AU - Schlichtmann, Ulf
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/6/28
Y1 - 2017/6/28
N2 - Microfluidic biochips are miniaturized lab-on-a-chips for executing biochemical assays [1]. Several types of biochips have been introduced previously. Flow-based biochips have predesigned devices such as mixers and heaters [2]. Intermediate execution results are transported in flow channels to target devices or stored temporarily in storage units. The architecture of such a chip, however, should be designed carefully, because the failure of a single device may make the whole chip completely unusable. The second type of biochips, digital biochips, have a regular electrode array on different substrates [3, 4], on which droplets are moved from one electrode to another by electrowetting. Devices such as mixers can be constructed on such a chip dynamically by moving droplets along a circular paths or even a path of any form [5] to mix samples and reagents. This flexibility comes from the fact that electrodes are controlled individually, requiring a lot of effort in routing during chip design and accordingly in pin count reduction.
AB - Microfluidic biochips are miniaturized lab-on-a-chips for executing biochemical assays [1]. Several types of biochips have been introduced previously. Flow-based biochips have predesigned devices such as mixers and heaters [2]. Intermediate execution results are transported in flow channels to target devices or stored temporarily in storage units. The architecture of such a chip, however, should be designed carefully, because the failure of a single device may make the whole chip completely unusable. The second type of biochips, digital biochips, have a regular electrode array on different substrates [3, 4], on which droplets are moved from one electrode to another by electrowetting. Devices such as mixers can be constructed on such a chip dynamically by moving droplets along a circular paths or even a path of any form [5] to mix samples and reagents. This flexibility comes from the fact that electrodes are controlled individually, requiring a lot of effort in routing during chip design and accordingly in pin count reduction.
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U2 - 10.1109/DFT.2017.8244449
DO - 10.1109/DFT.2017.8244449
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85046008434
T3 - 2017 IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, DFT 2017
SP - 1
BT - 2017 IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, DFT 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 13th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, DFT 2017
Y2 - 23 October 2017 through 25 October 2017
ER -