Reliability-oriented broadcast electrode-addressing for pin-constrained digital microfluidic biochips

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 448-455

  Huang, Tsung Wei ^a   Ho, Tsung Yi ^a   Chakrabarty, Krishnendu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; CHIP FABRICATION; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC BIOCHIPS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ON CHIPS; PIN COUNTS; PRODUCT COST; RELIABILITY PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COST ACCOUNTING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MERGING; MICROFLUIDICS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84855794470     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD.2011.6105367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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