Higher exibility of reconfigurable digital micro/nano uidic biochips using an FPGA-inspired architecture

Recent improvements in the bio-engineering area have composed wonderful opportunities to manipulate the bio-structures. biochips are known as electronic platforms to decrease the experiment time and cost and improve the exibility and automatability of operations. digital micro/nano uidic biochips can carry discrete droplets of experiment materials on the chip to perform the projected assays. in this paper, a new fpga-inspired architecture is proposed for micro-uidic biochips in order to improve the configurability and exibility of the biochip and also reduce the number of controlling pins. the simulation results show that in the proposed architecture, number of controlling pins is improved by 6.35x compared with the direct addressing method and the total experiment time is reduced by 34% compared with the field-programmable pin-constrained method, improving configurability and exibility.