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Fault Detection and Diagnosis of DMFB Using Concurrent Electrodes Actuation

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Digital Microfluidic Biochip (DMFB) is a heartening replacement to the conventional approach of biochemical laboratory tests. Air quality monitoring, point-of-care health monitoring, automated drug design, and parallel DNA analysis are just a few of the uses for these integrated devices. These applications prioritize the necessity of a cost-effective testing process to ensure the correct functionality of the biochip. Many of the testing mechanisms reported in the various literature concentrated on single fault identification or took a considerable amount of time to detect more than one fault. Thus a cost-effective testing and diagnosis method is required to minimize the incurred testing and diagnosis time. Hence, in this literature, we propose a method with the flexibility to simultaneously actuate more than one electrode. This method also facilitates chip testing offline as well as in online mode.

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For Fig. 9, data generated or analyzed during this study are included based on the following published articles

1. Paper Name: Parallel Scan-Like Test and Multiple-Defect Diagnosis for Digital Microfluidic Biochips

- Author(s) Name: Tao Xu and Krishnendu Chakrabarty

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2. Paper Name: Testing and diagnosis of realistic defects in digital microfluidic biochips

- Author(s) Name: Fei Su and William Hwang and Arindam Mukherjee and Krishnendu Chakrabarty

- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10836-006-0554-8

For Fig. 10, data generated or analyzed during this study are included based on the following published article,

1. Paper Name: Iterative Parallel Test to Detect and Diagnose Multiple Defects for Digital Microfluidic Biochip

- Author(s) Name: Sourav Ghosh, Dolan Maity, Arijit Chowdhury, Surajit Kumar Roy and Chandan Giri

- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS47505.2019.00027

2. Paper Name: Testing and diagnosis of realistic defects in digital microfluidic biochips

- Author(s) Name: Fei Su and William Hwang and Arindam Mukherjee and Krishnendu Chakrabarty

- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10836-006-0554-8

For Tables 5 and 6, data has been taken from the following paper,

1. Paper Name: Iterative Parallel Test to Detect and Diagnose Multiple Defects for Digital Microfluidic Biochip

- Author(s) Name: Sourav Ghosh, Dolan Maity, Arijit Chowdhury, Surajit Kumar Roy and Chandan Giri

- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS47505.2019.00027

For analysis purposes, we have generated some data using our proposed method, and on request, the source code can be available from the corresponding authors.

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Ghosh, S., Kumar Roy, S. & Giri, C. Fault Detection and Diagnosis of DMFB Using Concurrent Electrodes Actuation. J Electron Test 39, 89–102 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10836-023-06048-9

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