A reconfigurable continuous-flow fluidic routing fabric using a modular, scalable primitive
| Autor: | Swapnil Bhatia, Douglas Densmore, Ryan Silva |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Digital electronics
Engineering business.industry 010401 analytical chemistry Microfluidics Biomedical Engineering Bioengineering 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry Modular design 01 natural sciences Biochemistry 020202 computer hardware & architecture 0104 chemical sciences Transposer Embedded system Scalability Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Fluidics Hardware_ARITHMETICANDLOGICSTRUCTURES Routing (electronic design automation) business Field-programmable gate array |
| Zdroj: | Lab on a Chip. 16:2730-2741 |
| ISSN: | 1473-0189 1473-0197 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c6lc00477f |
| Popis: | Microfluidic devices, by definition, are required to move liquids from one physical location to another. Given a finite and frequently fixed set of physical channels to route fluids, a primitive design element that allows reconfigurable routing of that fluid from any of n input ports to any n output ports will dramatically change the paradigms by which these chips are designed and applied. Furthermore, if these elements are "regular" regarding their design, the programming and fabrication of these elements becomes scalable. This paper presents such a design element called a transposer. We illustrate the design, fabrication and operation of a single transposer. We then scale this design to create a programmable fabric towards a general-purpose, reconfigurable microfluidic platform analogous to the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) found in digital electronics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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