Sharif University of Technology Scientia Iranica 1026-3098 23 3 2016 06 01 Higher Flexibililty of Recongurable Digital Micro/Nano Fluidic Biochips using an FPGA-Inspired Architecture Higher Flexibililty of Recongurable Digital Micro/Nano Fluidic Biochips using an FPGA-Inspired Architecture 1554 1562 3919 10.24200/sci.2016.3919 EN Maryam Taajobian Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch Ali Jahanian Shahid Beheshti University Journal Article 2015 05 04 Significant improvements in bio-technology and bio-engineering have composed wonderful opportunities to understand and manipulate the bio-structures. Biochips are known as electronic platform for automating the bio-chemical operations in order to decrease time, cost and increase flexibility of operations. Digital micro/nano fluidic biochips are two dimensional arrays of controllable electrodes that can convey droplets around the chip to perform the assays. Each electrode is controlled via an external pins and decreasing the number of pins is very critical in feasibility of biochip construction. In this paper, a new FPGA-inspired architecture is proposed for micro-fluidic biochips in order to create the ability for configurability to improve the flexibility of biochip and reduce the number of controlling pins. Our simulations show that in the new architecture, number of required pins is improved 6.35x rather to than direct addressing method Griffith (2005) and total experiment time is reduced by 34% with higher level of configurability, flexibility. https://scientiairanica.sharif.edu/article_3919_854ca4d0ff676ff76970b0ae724a30fb.pdf