Design automation for microfluidic biochips

Monday, 4 July 2016 at 16:00 in INF 328

Seetal Potluri, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

 

Abstract:

Microfluidic biochips help perform biochemistry at miniaturized scales, thus enabling cost, performance and other benefits, similar to those obtained through miniaturization of computer chips. The miniaturization and large scale integration of microfluidic biochips has led to significant advances in drug discovery, prenatal screening and development of point-of-care devices. The integration density of these microfluidic biochips has crossed 1 million valves/cm², thereby enabling microfluidic very large scale integration (mVLSI). It is well known that the field of VLSI grew very rapidly because of the development of efficient design automation software tools. Although the mVLSI technology is mature, the lack of efficient design automation software for these devices is currently a major bottleneck for the market penetration of these devices. Our lab at DTU Compute has developed open source architecture synthesis, simulation, layout synthesis and test automation tools for mVLSI. In this talk, I will describe in detail the current advances in mVLSI design automation and the open source mVLSI design automation tools from DTU Compute.

About the speaker:

Seetal Potluri is currently a postdoc at Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Technical University of Denmark (DTU Compute). He received both his Masters and PhD degrees at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has served on the Program Committee of European Test Symposium 2016. He has presented papers in DATE, ETS, ATS and ICCD conferences and delivered invited talks at Cambridge, UC Berkeley and Rice universities.