Pranab Roy1, Hafizur Rahaman1, Parthasarathi Dasgupta2
1Bengal Engineering and Science University,Shibpur,INDIA, 2Indian Institute of Management,Calcutta,INDIA
The current advancement in microfluidics and microfabrication technology makes it possible to realize true multifunctional lab on chip systems that can replace a real life laboratory system with a miniaturized microsystem. The huge advantages of such systems are that they enable fast, easy-to-use, cost-effective detection methods which find major application in the areas of clinical diagnostics, DNA sequencing, drug discovery and other biochemical analysis and applications. As the design of droplet based microfluidic biochips tends to incorporate concurrent execution of multiple bioassays in a single chip – the design complexity as well as system integration issues begin to pose major challenges. A potential CAD problem in this context is the concurrent routing of droplets in DMFBs – which has direct impact on overall reaction time as well as cell usage and pin requirements (specifically in direct-addressing biochips). In this paper we proposed a route aware placement algorithm for droplets in a digital microfluidic system with a given prescheduled module arrangement. The objective is to enhance the routing process by intelligent collision avoidance, optimized stalling and detour – which finally results in stark improvement in latest arrival time and resource utilization. The algorithm is tested using benchmark suite I for 2 pin droplets and Benchmark suite III for multipin droplets. The results obtained in the process are found to be quite encouraging.