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A Space Efficient Greedy Droplet Routing for Digital Microfluidics Biochip

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Digital microfluidics biochip (DMFB) is capable of automating biochemical reactions or assays. It has three phases namely scheduling, planning and routing. Scheduling deals with when operation has to be executed, planning handles where to execute the operation and routing specifies how to perform the operation. The input to the biochip is an DAG of the biochemical reaction to be performed. A node in the DAG is an operation like mix, split, dilute etc, and the edges represents the inter-operational dependencies. Here we propose a new space efficient, greedy routing algorithm, based on rectangle overlapping. It combines both exploration and compaction in an iteration. The space requirement is reduced by storing routes in terms of L-lines in a new triplet format. Simulation result shows improvement of execution time and space consumption by 21.3% & 35.01% respectively.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, 769008, Odisha, India

    Jyotiranjan Swain, Kolluri Rajesh & Sumanta Pyne

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    Sudeb Dasgupta

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

    Virendra Singh

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    Rohit Sharma

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Swain, J., Rajesh, K., Pyne, S. (2019). A Space Efficient Greedy Droplet Routing for Digital Microfluidics Biochip. In: Sengupta, A., Dasgupta, S., Singh, V., Sharma, R., Kumar Vishvakarma, S. (eds) VLSI Design and Test. VDAT 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1066. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9767-8_9

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