Digital microfluidic biochips: recent research and emerging challenges

TY Ho, K Chakrabarty, P Pop - Proceedings of the seventh IEEE/ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Microfluidic biochips are replacing the conventional biochemical analyzers, and are able to
integrate on-chip all the basic functions for biochemical analysis. The" digital" microfluidic …

Micro-electrode-dot-array digital microfluidic biochips: Technology, design automation, and test techniques

Z Zhong, Z Li, K Chakrabarty, TY Ho… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) are being increasingly used for DNA sequencing, point-
of-care clinical diagnostics, and immunoassays. DMFBs based on a micro-electrode-dot …

Keynote paper: from EDA to IoT eHealth: promises, challenges, and solutions

F Firouzi, B Farahani, M Ibrahim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The interaction between technology and healthcare has a long history. However, recent
years have witnessed the rapid growth and adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm …

Optimization of dilution and mixing of biochemical samples using digital microfluidic biochips

S Roy, BB Bhattacharya… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent emergence of lab-on-a-chip (LoC) technology has led to a paradigm shift in
many healthcare-related application areas, eg, point-of-care clinical diagnostics, high …

Cross-contamination avoidance for droplet routing in digital microfluidic biochips

Y Zhao, K Chakrabarty - … aided design of integrated circuits and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in digital microfluidics have enabled droplet-based biochip devices for
DNA sequencing, immunoassays, clinical chemistry, and protein crystallization. Since cross …

Reactant minimization during sample preparation on digital microfluidic biochips using skewed mixing trees

JD Huang, CH Liu, TW Chiang - Proceedings of the International …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Sample preparation is an indispensable process to biochemical reactions. Original reactants
are usually diluted to the solutions with desirable concentrations. Since the reactants, like …

Integrated control-path design and error recovery in the synthesis of digital microfluidic lab-on-chip

Y Zhao, T Xu, K Chakrabarty - ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in digital microfluidics have led to tremendous interest in miniaturized lab-
on-chip devices for biochemical analysis. Synthesis tools have also emerged for the …

Scheduling I/O requests with deadlines: A performance evaluation

RK Abbott, H Garcia-Molina - [1990] Proceedings 11th Real …, 1990 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The I/O scheduling problem is examined in detail. The authors present a realistic model for
studying this problem in the context of a system which executes real-time transactions. The …

Exact routing for micro-electrode-dot-array digital microfluidic biochips

O Keszocze, Z Li, A Grimmer, R Wille… - 2017 22nd Asia and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital microfluidics is an emerging technology that provide fluidic-handling capabilities on a
chip. One of the most important issues to be considered when conducting experiments on …

An open-source compiler and PCB synthesis tool for digital microfluidic biochips

D Grissom, C Curtis, S Windh, C Phung… - INTEGRATION, the VLSI …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper describes a publicly available, open source software framework designed to
support research efforts on algorithms and control for digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) …