Testing microfluidic Fully Programmable Valve Arrays (FPVAs)

Document Type

Conference Article

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 2017 Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2017

Abstract

Fully Programmable Valve Array (FPVA) has emerged as a new architecture for the next-generation flow-based microfluidic biochips. This 2D-array consists of regularly-arranged valves, which can be dynamically configured by users to realize microfluidic devices of different shapes and sizes as well as interconnections. Additionally, the regularity of the underlying structure renders FPVAs easier to integrate on a tiny chip. However, these arrays may suffer from various manufacturing defects such as blockage and leakage in control and flow channels. Unfortunately, no efficient method is yet known for testing such a general-purpose architecture. In this paper, we present a novel formulation using the concept of flow paths and cut-sets, and describe an ILP-based hierarchical strategy for generating compact test sets that can detect multiple faults in FPVAs. Simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method in detecting manufacturing faults with only a small number of test vectors.

First Page

91

Last Page

96

DOI

10.23919/DATE.2017.7926964

Publication Date

5-11-2017

Comments

Open Access, Green

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