Hardware/Software Co-Design and Optimization for Cyberphysical Integration in Digital Microfluidic Biochips || Conclusions

✍ Scribed by Luo, Yan; Chakrabarty, Krishnendu; Ho, Tsung-Yi

• Book ID: 126126216
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 78 KB
• Edition: 2015
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3319090062
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09006-1_8

✦ Synopsis

This book describes a comprehensive framework for hardware/software co-design, optimization, and use of robust, low-cost, and cyberphysical digital microfluidic systems. Readers with a background in electronic design automation will find this book to be a valuable reference for leveraging conventional VLSI CAD techniques for emerging technologies, e.g., biochips or bioMEMS. Readers from the circuit/system design community will benefit from methods presented to extend design and testing techniques from microelectronics to mixed-technology microsystems. For readers from the microfluidics domain, this book presents a new design and development strategy for cyberphysical microfluidics-based biochips suitable for large-scale bioassay applications. • Takes a transformative, “cyberphysical” approach towards achieving closed-loop and sensor feedback-driven biochip operation under program control; • Presents a “physically-aware” system reconfiguration technique that uses sensor data at intermediate checkpoints to dynamically reconfigure biochips; • Enables readers to simplify the structure of biochips, while facilitating the “general-purpose” use of digital microfluidic biochips for a wider range of applications.