TY - GEN
T1 - Storage-Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Reservoir Switching Minimization on Digital Microfluidic Biochips
AU - Song, Ling Yen
AU - Yeh, Chih Shen
AU - Liu, Chien-Nan
AU - Huang, Juinn-Dar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/4/19
Y1 - 2021/4/19
N2 - Design automation of Digital Microfluidic biochip (DMFB) is one of the active research topics in recent years. A couple of studies have been conducted to minimize the reservoir switching count, which significantly speeds up a multi-reactant mixing process. In general, it is easier to reduce the switching count if more on-chip storage units are available. Nevertheless, in reality, the number of storages is often limited due to the chip fabrication cost. Therefore, in this paper, we present a storage-aware scheduling algorithm for reservoir switching minimization. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can reduce the storage requirement by 44% while still achieving a 38% decrease in the reservoir switching count when compared with a state-of-the-art method.
AB - Design automation of Digital Microfluidic biochip (DMFB) is one of the active research topics in recent years. A couple of studies have been conducted to minimize the reservoir switching count, which significantly speeds up a multi-reactant mixing process. In general, it is easier to reduce the switching count if more on-chip storage units are available. Nevertheless, in reality, the number of storages is often limited due to the chip fabrication cost. Therefore, in this paper, we present a storage-aware scheduling algorithm for reservoir switching minimization. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can reduce the storage requirement by 44% while still achieving a 38% decrease in the reservoir switching count when compared with a state-of-the-art method.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106605996&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/VLSI-DAT52063.2021.9427345
DO - 10.1109/VLSI-DAT52063.2021.9427345
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85106605996
T3 - 2021 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2021 - Proceedings
BT - 2021 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2021 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2021
Y2 - 19 April 2021 through 22 April 2021
ER -