A general testing method for digital microfluidic biochips under physical constraints
2015 IEEE International Test Conference (ITC)(2015)
Abstract
Digital microfluidics is viewed as one of the most promising technologies for biomedical experiments. Digital microfluidic biochips are often used today for applications such as point-of-care health assessment, drug discovery, and air-quality monitoring. Therefore, such devices must be adequately tested after manufacturing to guarantee the correctness of the biomedical experiments. Previous test methods for digital microfluidic biochips are either unable to cover all chip defects or inapplicable for application-specific biochips with arbitrary layouts. Furthermore, previous methods also ignore the fluidic constraints required for droplet routing, which makes the test droplet routing problem much more challenging in realistic test-application scenarios. In this paper, we propose the first test method for digital microfluidic biochips that is not only able to cover all chip defects, but is also applicable for arbitrary chip layouts. Moreover, we propose an optimization technique to route test droplets with minimum test-application time. A polynomial-time scheduling algorithm is also presented to solve the optimization problem in an efficient manner. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed test method requires significantly less test-application time compared to related previous work.
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Key words
general testing method,digital microfluidic biochip test method,droplet routing,chip layout,minimum test application,polynomial-time scheduling algorithm,optimization problem
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