Automatic synthesis of microfluidic large scale integration chips from a domain-specific language

Author

McDaniel, J. ; Curtis, Chris ; Brisk, Philip

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 31 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

104

Abstract

BioCoder is a domain-specific language by which chemists and biologists can express experimental protocols in a manner that is unambiguous and clearly repeatable. This paper presents a software toolchain that converts a protocol specified in a restricted subset of BioCoder to a technology-specific description of the protocol, targeting flow-based microfluidic large-scale integration (mLSI) chips. The technology-specific description can then be used to either: (1) execute the protocol on a capable chip; or (2) to derive the architecture of a new mLSI chip that can execute the protocol.

Keywords

bioMEMS; biology computing; lab-on-a-chip; microfluidics; programming languages; software tools; BioCoder; domain specific language; experimental protocols; flow based microfluidic large scale integration; mLSI chip automatic synthesis; microfluidic large scale integration chips; software toolchain; technology specific protocol description; Assembly; Biology; Computer architecture; Fluids; Heating; Microfluidics; Protocols; domain-specific language; microfluidic Large Scale Integration (mLSI);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Rotterdam

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BioCAS.2013.6679649

Filename

6679649