Papers Published

1. Zhang, T; Chakrabarty, K; Fair, RB, Behavioral modeling and performance evaluation of microelectrofluidics- based PCR systems using systemC, Ieee Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 23 no. 6 (2004), pp. 843-858, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [doi] .
   (last updated on 2022/12/30)

   Abstract:
   Composite microsystems that incorporate microelectromechanical and microelectrofluidic devices are emerging as the next generation of system-on-a-chip (SOC). We present a performance comparison between two types of microelectrofluidic systems (MEFS): continuous-flow systems and droplet-based systems. The comparison is based on a specific microelectrofluidic application - a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) system. The behavioral modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation are based on a SystemC design environment. The performance comparison includes the system throughput, system-correction capacity, system-processing capacity, and system-design complexity. By using our system-performance evaluation environment, we demonstrated that the droplet-based MEFS provides higher performance, as well as lower design and integration complexity.