Testing microelectronic biofluidic systems

HG Kerkhoff - IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This article describes analog and digital MEF design and testing methods. It doesn’t deal
with the testing of pure fluidic systems that don’t require electronics, although many impressive …

Test strategies for electrode degradation in bio-fluidic microsystems

Q Al-Gayem, H Liu, A Richardson, N Burd - Journal of Electronic Testing, 2011 - Springer
… built into integrated bio-fluidic systems to realise a Built-in-Self-Test or On-line Test capability.
… method is based on the sensitivity of the bio-fluidic interface capacitance to degradation, …

Embedded test & health monitoring strategies for bio-fluidic microystems

H Liu, A Richardson, TG Harvey, T Ryan… - … Electronics System …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… integrate both microfluidics and micro-electronics. The … micro-electronics is used to provide
the sensing function and also to control the microfluid flows. In many applications, the system

Testing of flow-based microfluidic biochips: Fault modeling, test generation, and experimental demonstration

K Hu, F Yu, TY Ho, K Chakrabarty - … Circuits and Systems, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The total cost of the testing system used in this paper is less than $1000. … A physical
test system is implemented to apply test patterns and measure test responses. Defects are …

Functional testing of digital microfluidic biochips

T Xu, K Chakrabarty - 2007 IEEE International Test Conference, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
testing, we first develop a fault model for functional testing. Since functional testing is an
extension of structural testing, … Next we evaluate system dependability of the synthesized design …

Fault modeling and functional test methods for digital microfluidic biochips

T Xu, K Chakrabarty - … on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We also introduce the concept of functional testing and propose effective methods to test
the biochip for droplet dispensing, droplet transportation, mixing, splitting, and capacitive …

Built-in test solutions for the electrode structures in bio-fluidic microsystems

Q Al-Gayem, H Liu, A Richardson… - … IEEE European Test …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this paper two on-line test solutions for an electrode structure have been proposed that
have the potential to be built into integrated bio-fluidic systems. The low-frequency impedance …

Testing of flow-based microfluidic biochips

K Hu, TY Ho, K Chakrabarty - 2013 IEEE 31st VLSI Test …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We can reduce the number of pressure meters at the cost of more test patterns and test time.
Moreover, pressure meters are inexpensive, eg, a silicon pressure sensor from Honeywell …

Design automation and test solutions for digital microfluidic biochips

K Chakrabarty - … on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Thus, the array design in such cases is specific to a target biofluidic application. … As in
microelectronic circuits, a defective microfluidic biochip is said to have a failure if its operation does …

Fault co-simulation for test evaluation of heterogeneous integrated biological systems

HG Kerkhoff, X Zhang - Microelectronics journal, 2009 - Elsevier
… of microelectronics, we enabled the fault co-simulation of MEF arrays that combine microfluidic
systems with conventional CMOS/DMOS SoCs. … Testing microelectronic biofluidic systems