Abstract
Digital microfluidic systems (DMFS) are an emerging class of lab-on-chip systems. They become widespread in safety-critical biomedical applications, and dependability is a critical performance parameter for them. For most parallel test schemes, the test droplets are preloaded into their test region before the start of testing, and the time needed for transferring the test droplets to their corresponding test region that called the dispensing time may be very long. To reduce dispensing time, an optimal test droplets dispensing for parallel testing is proposed in the paper. The problem that we address here is to minimize the system testing time by optimally assigning test droplets dispending to the test sources. Even though the decision version of the problem is shown to be NP-complete, it can be solved exactly for practical instances using integer linear programming (ILP). The experimental results show the effective of the proposed test scheme.
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