A high-performance online assay interpreter for digital microfluidic biochips

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Grissom;Philip Brisk

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA;University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the great lakes symposium on VLSI
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce an online interpreter to execute biochemical assays on droplet-based digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs). Online interpretation enables adaptivity, e.g., response to faults during assay execution, variable-latency assay operations, and concurrent workloads whose composition is not known statically. Our online method routes droplets dynamically, making decisions in milliseconds while running on a low-cost Intel Atom" processor.