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Joint IEEE Section and Computer Society Meeting

Design Automation Methods for Droplet-Based "Digital" Microfluidic Biochips

Speaker: Krishnendu Chakrabarty from Duke University Krishnendu Chakrabarty is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University where he has been a faculty member since 1998. His current research is focused on design and test of system-on-chip integrated circuits, distributed sensor networks, real-time embedded systems, microfluidics-based biochips, and chip cooling using droplet-based microfluidics. He has co-authored two books, edited a third book, and published over 180 papers on these topics in archival journals and refereed conference proceedings. His research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, DARPA, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.

Dr. Chakrabarty is a recipient of the 1999 National Science Foundation Early Faculty (CAREER) Award, the 2001 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Mercator Professor from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany, for 2000-2002, and a best paper award for the 2001 IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference. He is a distinguished visitor of the IEEE Computer Society for 2005-2007. He is also a recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alexabder von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, in 2003. He is an Editor of the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, and an Associate Editor of the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems. He has also served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing.

Dr. Chakrabarty received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1990, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1992 and 1995, respectively, all in Computer Science and Engineering. During 1995-1998, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. Dr. Chakrabarty is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM and SIGDA, and a member of Sigma Xi. He is a member of the program committees of a number of IEEE and ACM conferences/workshops. He served as the Tutorial Co-Chair for the 2005 IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design. He is the designated Co-Chair of the 2005 IEEE Asian Test Symposium and is the designated track chair for the emerging technologies track at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.

Event Date: Thursday, September 15, 2005

Meeting Location: Misty's Restaurant - 6235 Havelock Avenue, Lincoln, NE

Sign in and Social hour: 5:00 P.M.

Dinner: 5:30 P.M.

Presentation & Questions: 6:15 P.M.

Meal Price: $20 - $27 (see selections below) IEEE Student meals are half price!

Dinner Selections: King Cut Prime Rib (12 oz.) for $27, Red Pepper Basil Chicken Breast for $20, or Tilapia Brown Bay for $20. Dinner Entrees include a dinner salad, Chef's potato or wild rice pilaf, seasonal vegetables, rolls and butter, coffee, tea, or milk.

Sponsor: A sponsor for door prizes at this meeting is open.

Topic Overview: Composite microsystems that incorporate microelectromechanical and microfluidic systems are fast emerging as the next generation of system-on-chip (SOC) designs. The combination of microelectronics and microstructures is enabling a new class of integrated systems targeted at environmental sensing, actuation and control, biomedical analysis, toxic agent detection, and precision fluid dispensing. The 2003 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) identifies the integration of electro-chemical and electro-biological MEFS as one of the system-level design challenges that will be faced beyond 2009 when feature sizes shrink below 50nm.

This talk will first present an overview of the droplet-based digital microfluidics technology developed at Duke University. It will address the problem of designing droplet-based biochips. Current techniques for full-custom design of droplet-based "digital" biochips do not scale well for concurrent bioassays and for next-generation SOC designs that are expected to include fluidic components. A system design methodology that attempts to apply classical synthesis and module placement methods to the design of microfluidics-based biochips will then be presented. A clinical diagnostic procedure, namely multiplexed in-vitro diagnostics on human physiological fluids, will be used to evaluate the proposed method. Next, fault models and a concurrent test methodology for fault detection will be discussed. Finally, yield enhancement and fault tolerance techniques based on dynamic reconfiguration will be presented.

This presentation is worth One (1) Professional Development Unit. Indicate your need for a PDH certificate during sign in at the meeting.

Please place your reservations by no later than 12 P.M., Wednesday, September 14th. State your name, callback number, and dinner selection.

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