BioViz: An Interactive Visualization Engine for the Design of Digital Microfluidic Biochips
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
In order to shorten the required time for the analysis
of medical substances, Digital Microfluidic Biochips (DMFBs)
have been suggested. They allow for handling small amounts of
samples and reagents on a circuit board and, thus, automatically
execute medical experiments that are usually conducted manually
in laboratories. However, there are various challenges in the
design of DMFBs. Issues such as routing and layouting are
complex and currently being investigated by various researchers
and engineers. Although first automatic solutions assist them,
the obtained results are usually provided in a complex and
non-intuitive fashion. This makes the utilization and evaluation
of existing approaches for DMFB design a tedious task. In this
paper, we present a solution for this problem by proposing a
visualization scheme for DMFBs that explicitly addresses these
problems. To this end, a grammar is proposed which allows
the description of resulting designs and their properties. The
contributions of this work allow for a design methodology which
is easy to use and provides a hassle-free environment for the
involved researchers and engineers.
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