Unified high-level synthesis and module placement for defect-tolerant microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Architectural-level synthesis of digital microfluidics-based biochips
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Droplet routing in the synthesis of digital microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings
Priority scheduling in digital microfluidics-based biochips
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings
Module placement for fault-tolerant microfluidics-based biochips
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
Automated design of pin-constrained digital microfluidic arrays for lab-on-a-chip applications*
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
Placement of digital microfluidic biochips using the t-tree formulation
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
Composable Behavioral Models and Schematic-Based Simulation of Electrokinetic Lab-on-a-Chip Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Synthesis of Multiplexed Biofluidic Microchips
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Performance Characterization of a Reconfigurable Planar-Array Digital Microfluidic System
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
A high-performance droplet router for digital microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Physical design
Design and optimization of a digital microfluidic biochip for protein crystallization
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Tabu search-based synthesis of dynamically reconfigurable digital microfluidic biochips
CASES '09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
ILP-based pin-count aware design methodology for microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference
Droplet-routing-aware module placement for cross-referencing biochips
Proceedings of the 19th international symposium on Physical design
A two-stage ILP-based droplet routing algorithm for pin-constrained digital microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the 19th international symposium on Physical design
A novel droplet routing algorithm for digital microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the 20th symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI
ICCD'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Computer design
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Design automation and test solutions for digital microfluidic biochips
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
ILP-based pin-count aware design methodology for microfluidic biochips
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Cross-contamination avoidance for droplet routing in digital microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Routing-based synthesis of digital microfluidic biochips
CASES '10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems
Co-optimization of droplet routing and pin assignment in disposable digital microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the 2011 international symposium on Physical design
Fast high-performance algorithms for multi-pin droplet routing in digital microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Fast online synthesis of generally programmable digital microfluidic biochips
Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Module-Based Synthesis of Digital Microfluidic Biochips with Droplet-Aware Operation Execution
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
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Microfluidic biochips are revolutionizing many areas of biochemistry and biomedical sciences. Several synthesis tools have recently been proposed for the automated design of biochips from the specifications of laboratory protocols. However, only a few of these tools address the problem of droplet routing in microfluidic arrays. These methods typically rely on post-synthesis droplet routing to implement biochemical protocols. Such an approach is not only time-consuming, but it also imposes an undue burden on the chip user. Moreover, post-synthesis droplet routing does not guarantee that feasible droplet pathways can be found for area-constrained biochip layouts; non-routable fabricated biochips must be discarded. We present a droplet-routing-aware automated synthesis tool for microfluidic biochips. Droplet routability, defined as the ease with which droplet pathways can be determined, is estimated and integrated in the synthesis flow. The proposed approach allows architectural-level design choices and droplet-routing-aware physical design decisions to be made simultaneously. We use a large-scale protein assay as a case study to evaluate the proposed synthesis method.