Performance and cost analysis of NoC-inspired virtual topologies for digital microfluidic biochips

Author

Grissom, D. ; McDaniel, J. ; Brisk, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. & Comput. Sci., Azusa Pacific Univ., Azusa, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

355

Abstract

Virtual topologies simply the process of compiling assays to execute on digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs). This paper evaluates the performance and cost of a virtual topology inspired by networks-on-chip (NoCs). The throughput of several deadlock-free droplet routing protocols is compared on synthetic traffic patterns that are widely used to evaluate semiconductor NoCs. The cost is the number of control pins required for actuation and the number of PCB layers required to route the chip; by eliminating unused pins, the virtual topology is cheaper than a direct-addressing DMFB, especially as chip size increases.

Keywords

bioMEMS; lab-on-a-chip; microfluidics; network-on-chip; printed circuits; DMFB; NoC-inspired virtual topologies; PCB layers; chip size; cost analysis; deadlock-free droplet routing protocols; digital microfluidic biochips; networks-on-chip; printed circuit boards; semiconductor NoC; synthetic traffic patterns; Electrodes; Network topology; Routing; Routing protocols; System recovery; Throughput; Topology; Deadlock; Digital Microfluidic Biochip (DMFB); Droplet Routing; Network-on-Chip (NoC); Virtual Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2014 14th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISICIR.2014.7029518

Filename

7029518