Digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) are revolutionary biomedical devices towards diagnostics and point-of-care applications; the chips provide the capability of performing wide ranges of biochemistry and laboratory procedures, offering various opportunities among which to mention are automation, miniaturization and cost-affordability of bioassays. There have been various digital microfluidic biochips architectures; the application-specific chips are mainly suited towards executing a predefined set of bioassays whereas the more flexible general-purpose chips allow executing wide ranges of bioassays on the same architecture. Though more flexible in terms of performing various bioassays the general-purpose chips require more complicated designs compared with application-specific counterparts necessitating larger and more costly designs. This paper attempts to propose a general-purpose field-programmable pin-constrained DMFB design with improved characteristics in terms area-consumption, manufacturing cost and performance.
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@article{arxiv.2008.13436,
title = {Low-Cost Performance-Efficient Field-Programmable Pin-Constrained Digital Microfluidic Biochip},
author = {Alireza Abdoli and Sedigheh Farhadtoosky and Ali Jahanian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.13436},
year = {2020}
}