Digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) constitute modern generation of Lab-on-Chip (LoC) devices aimed at automation, miniaturization and cost-affordability of biochemistry and laboratory procedures. Over the course of past few years there have been various application-specific and general-purpose DMFBs aimed at reduced manufacturing costs; following the same trend this study presents a general-purpose DMFB with highly competitive characteristics compared with the state-of-the-art DMFBs. The proposed DMFB architecture provides lower Layout / PCB fabrication costs thereby reducing the total manufacturing costs. While more cost-affordable the proposed design is competitive with the state-of-the-art DMFB architectures.

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一种成本和性能高效的现场可编程引脚约束数字微流体生物芯片

数字微流控生物芯片 (DMFB) 构成了现代芯片实验室 ​​(LoC) 设备，旨在实现生物化学和实验室程序的自动化、小型化和成本承受能力。在过去几年中，出现了各种旨在降低制造成本的专用和通用 DMFB；遵循相同的趋势，本研究提出了一种与最先进的 DMFB 相比具有高度竞争特性的通用 DMFB。建议的 DMFB 架构提供较低的布局/PCB 制造成本，从而降低总制造成本。虽然成本更低，但所提议的设计与最先进的 DMFB 架构相比具有竞争力。