Abstract
Designs of flow-based microfluidic biochips are receiving much attention recently because they replace conventional biological automation paradigm and are able to integrate different biochemical analysis functions on a chip. However, as the design complexity increases, a flow-based microfluidic biochip needs more chip-integrated micro-valves, i.e., the basic unit of fluid-handling functionality, to manipulate the fluid flow for biochemical applications. Moreover, frequent switching of micro-valves results in decreased reliability. To minimize the valve-switching activities, we develop a network-flow based resource binding algorithm based on breadth-first search (BFS) and minimum cost maximum flow (MCMF) in architectural-level synthesis. The experimental results show that our methodology not only makes significant reduction of valve-switching activities but also diminishes the application completion time for both real-life applications and a set of synthetic benchmarks.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2013 18th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication date | 2013 |
Pages | 213-218 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4673-3029-9 |
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Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Event | 18th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2013) - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 22 Jan 2013 → 25 Jan 2013 http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2013/index.html |
Conference
Conference | 18th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2013) |
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Country | Japan |
City | Yokohama |
Period | 22/01/2013 → 25/01/2013 |
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