Papers Published

1. Zhao, Y; Sturmer, R; Chakrabarty, K; Pamula, VK, Synchronization of Concurrently-Implemented Fluidic Operations in Pin-Constrained Digital Microfluidic Biochips, Proceedings of the Ieee International Conference on Vlsi Design (March, 2010), pp. 69-74, IEEE [doi] .
   (last updated on 2022/12/30)

   Abstract:
   The implementation of bioassays in pin-constrained biochips may involve pin-actuation conflicts if the concurrently-implemented fluidic operations are not carefully synchronized. We propose a two-phase optimization method to identify and synchronize the fluidic operations that can be executed in parallel. The goal is to implement these fluidic operations without pinactuation conflict, and minimize the duration of implementing the outcome sequence after the synchronization. The effectiveness of the proposed two-phase optimization method is demonstrated for a representative 3-plex assay performed on a fabricated pin-constrained biochip. © 2010 IEEE.