This book provides an insightful guide to the design, testing and
optimization of micro-electrode-dot-array (MEDA) digital microfluidic
biochips. The authors focus on the characteristics specific for MEDA
biochips, e.g., real-time sensing and advanced microfluidic operations
like lamination mixing and droplet shape morphing. Readers will be
enabled to enhance the automated design and use of MEDA and to develop a
set of solutions to facilitate the full exploitation of design
complexities that are possible with standard CMOS fabrication
techniques. The book provides the first set of design automation and
test techniques for MEDA biochips. The methods described in this book
have been validated using fabricated MEDA biochips in the laboratory.
Readers will benefit from an in-depth look at the MEDA platform and how
to combine microfluidics with software, e.g., applying biomolecular
protocols to software-controlled and cyberphysical microfluidic
biochips.