Extending Fault-Based Testing to Microelectromechanical Systems
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications - special issue on the European test workshop 1999
Fault Modeling and Fault Simulation in Mixed Micro-Fluidic Microelectronic Systems
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications
Development of a MEMS Testing Methodology
Proceedings of the IEEE International Test Conference
Testable Design and Testing of Micro-Electro-Fluidic Arrays
VTS '03 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
Analysis of Failure Sources in Surface-Micromachined MEMS
ITC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Test Conference
Multi-Modal Built-In Self-Test for Symmetric Microsystems
VTS '04 Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
Electrically-Induced Thermal Stimuli for MEMS Testing
ETS '04 Proceedings of the European Test Symposium, Ninth IEEE
MEMS Built-In-Self-Test Using MLS
ETS '04 Proceedings of the European Test Symposium, Ninth IEEE
Test Planning and Test Resource Optimization for Droplet-Based Microfluidic Systems
ETS '04 Proceedings of the European Test Symposium, Ninth IEEE
Design of Fault-Tolerant and Dynamically-Reconfigurable Microfluidic Biochips
Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 2
Architectural-level synthesis of digital microfluidics-based biochips
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Multiple fault diagnosis in digital microfluidic biochips
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
Computer-Aided Design and Test for Digital Microfluidics
IEEE Design & Test
Efficient parallel testing and diagnosis of digital microfluidic biochips
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
Fault Diagnosis in Lab-on-Chip Using Digital Microfluidic Logic Gates
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications
Test Planning in Digital Microfluidic Biochips Using Efficient Eulerization Techniques
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications
Optimal Testing of Digital Microfluidic Biochips
INFORMS Journal on Computing
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We present a concurrent testing methodology for detecting catastrophic faults in digital microfluidics-based biochips and investigate the related problems of test planning and resource optimization. We first show that an integer linear programming model can be used to minimize testing time for a given hardware overhead, for example, droplet dispensing sources and capacitive sensing circuitry. Due to the NP-complete nature of the problem, we also develop efficient heuristic procedures to solve this optimization problem. We apply the proposed concurrent testing methodology to a droplet-based microfluidic array that was fabricated and used to perform multiplexed glucose and lactate assays. Experimental results show that the proposed test approach interleaves test application with the biomedical assays and prevents resource conflicts. The proposed method is therefore directed at ensuring high reliability and availability of bio-MEMS and lab-on-a-chip systems, as they are increasingly deployed for safety-critical applications.