Recently developed lab-on-a-chip technologies integrate multiple traditional assays on a single chip with higher sensitivity, faster assay time, and more streamlined sample operation. We discuss the prospects of the lab-on-a-tip platform, where assays can be integrated on a miniaturized tip for in situ and in vivo analysis. It will resolve some of the limitations of available lab-on-a-chip plat...

The input buffers of the current packet-switched Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures consume a significant portion of the total power of the interconnection network. Reducing the size of input buffers would result in degraded performance, while eliminating all buffers would result in increased power at high network load. In this article, we propose DXbar: an innovative dual-crossbar design. By ...

This work presents a miniaturized lab-on-chip system suitable for monitoring the activity of living cells through the on-chip detection of their bioluminescence emission. The system integrates amorphous silicon diodes, acting as temperature and light sensors, and indium tin oxide film, acting as heater, on a single glass substrate. During its operation, the glass is thermally and optically coup...

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A concept for solving the communication problem among modules dynamically placed on a reconfigurable device is presented. Based on a dynamic network-on-chip (DyNoC) communication infrastructure, components placed at run-time on a device can mutually communicate. A 4x4 dynamic network-on-chip communication infrastructure prototype, implemented in an FPGA occupies only 7% of the device area and c...

The association of smart mobile devices and lab-on-chip technologies offers unprecedented opportunities for the emergence of direct-to-consumer in vitro medical diagnostics applications. Despite their clear transformative potential, obstacles remain to the large-scale disruption and long-lasting success of these systems in the consumer market. For instance, the increasing level of complexity of...

This work presents and evaluates different approaches of integrated optical sensors based on photonic circuit (PIC) technologies for refractive index sensing. Bottlenecks in the fabrication flow towards an applicable system are discussed that hinder a cost-effective mass-production disposable sensor chips. As device, waveguide coupled micro-ring approach is chosen which manufactured 8” wafer le...