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| Bachelorprojekt - Softwareteknologi | Project No. 0008: A simulator for digital micro-fluidic biochips based on OpenModelica |
| Aktuelle | Tidligere |
Microfluidic-based biochips (also referred to as lab-on-a-chip or bio-MEMS) are emerging as a key enabling technology for massively parallel biochemical analysis. Applications of biochips include: clinical diagnostics (e.g., healthcare for premature infants); bio-defense applications; massively parallel DNA analysis; and automated drug discovery. The ßecond generation" of biochips is based on the manipulation of liquids not as a continuous flow, but as discrete droplets. Thus, they are also referred to as "digital microfluidics", due to the analogy between the droplets and the bits in a digital system.
The first step in addressing the CAD challenges in this context is to build a simulator for digital microfluidic biochips. The basic idea of this project is to use the Modelica language to capture the equations governing the functioning of these chips. Modelica is a free object-oriented modelling language with a textual definition to describe physical systems in a convenient way by differential, algebraic and discrete equations.
(The project can be extended to accommodate a group of two students.)
Supervisor(s) Paul Pop
| Sidst opdateret: Oct 31, 2011 af Hans Henrik Løvengreen |