This book provides an insightful guide to the design, testing and optimization of micro-electrode-dot-array (MEDA) digital microfluidic biochips. The authors focus on the characteristics specific for MEDA biochips, e.g., real-time sensing and advanced microfluidic operations like lamination mixing and droplet shape morphing. Readers will be enabled to enhance the automated design and use of MEDA and to develop a set of solutions to facilitate the full exploitation of design complexities that are possible with standard CMOS fabrication techniques. The book provides the first set of design automation and test techniques for MEDA biochips. The methods described in this book have been validated using fabricated MEDA biochips in the laboratory. Readers will benefit from an in-depth look at the MEDA platform and how to combine microfluidics with software, e.g., applying biomolecular protocols to software-controlled and cyberphysical microfluidic biochips.

Advances of video coding made an adverse impact on VLSI implementation over mobile communication systems. Those impacts mainly include area, power, and channel deterioration in the video decoding side. Therefore, this book presents a low- power dual-standard video decoder to improve the area/power efficiency. It supports MPEG-2 SP@ML and H.264/AVC BL@L4 video decoding in a single chip and features a scalable architecture to reduce the required silicon area as well as power dissipation. Moreover, to combat transmission errors of video streams, this design is robust to the channel behavior for improving the subjective and objective visual quality.