A high-performance droplet routing algorithm for digital microfluidic biochips

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1714-1724

  Cho, Minsik ^b,c   Pan, David Z ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochip; Bypassibility; Droplet; Microfluidics; Routing; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; ERRORS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FLUID MECHANICS; MICROARRAYS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; NANOFLUIDICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

BIOCHIP; BYPASSIBILITY; CRITICAL DESIGN; DESIGN COMPLEXITIES; DESIGN STAGES; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC BIOCHIPS; DROPLET; DROPLET ROUTING; MICRO-FLUIDIC; MICROFLUIDICS; ROUTABILITY; ROUTING; SYNTHESIS; TIME-MULTIPLEXED; VLSI DESIGNS;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 52649171407     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2008.2003282     Document Type: Article

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