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
Challenges Facing Practical DFT for MEMS
DFT '01 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems
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
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
Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 2
Defect Tolerance for Gracefully-Degradable Microfluidics-Based Biochips
VTS '05 Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Symposium on VLSI Test
Architectural-level synthesis of digital microfluidics-based biochips
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Concurrent Testing of Droplet-Based Microfluidic Systems for Multiplexed Biomedical Assays
ITC '04 Proceedings of the International Test Conference on International Test Conference
Concurrent testing of digital microfluidics-based biochips
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Module placement for fault-tolerant microfluidics-based biochips
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
Yield enhancement of reconfigurable microfluidics-based biochips using interstitial redundancy
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
Efficient parallel testing and diagnosis of digital microfluidic biochips
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
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Microfluidics-based biochips consist of microfluidic arrays on rigid substrates through which, movement of fluids is tightly controlled to facilitate biological reactions. Biochips are soon expected to revolutionize biosensing, clinical diagnostics, and drug discovery. Critical to the deployment of biochips in such diverse areas is the dependability of these systems. Thus, robust testing techniques are required to ensure an adequate level of system dependability. Due to the underlying mixed technology and energy domains, such biochips exhibit unique failure mechanisms and defects. In this article we present a highly effective fault diagnosis strategy that uses a single source and sink to detect and locate multiple faults in a microfluidic array, without flooding the array, a problem that has hampered realistic implementations of all existing strategies. The strategy renders itself well for a built-in self-test that could drastically reduce the operating cost of microfluidic biochips. It can be used during both the manufacturing phase of the biochip, as well as field operation. Furthermore, the algorithm can pinpoint the actual fault, as opposed to merely the faulty regions that are typically identified by strategies proposed in the literature. Also, analytical results suggest that it is an effective strategy that can be used to design highly dependable biochip systems.