Microfluidic Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI‪)‬

This book
presents the state-of-the-art techniques for the modeling, simulation, testing,
compilation and physical synthesis of mVLSI biochips.  The authors
describe a top-down modeling and synthesis methodology for the mVLSI biochips,
inspired by microelectronics VLSI methodologies. They introduce a modeling
framework for the components and the biochip architecture, and a high-level
microfluidic protocol language. Coverage includes a topology graph-based model
for the biochip architecture, and a sequencing graph to model for biochemical
application, showing how the application model can be obtained from the
protocol language. The techniques described facilitate programmability and
automation, enabling developers in the emerging, large biochip market.

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Presents
the current models used for the research on compilation and synthesis
techniques of mVLSI biochips in a tutorial fashion;

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Includes
a set of "benchmarks", that are presented in great detail and
includes the source code of several of the techniques presented, including
solutions to the basic compilation and synthesis problems;

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Discusses
several new research problems in detail, using numerous examples.