Towards design-for-testability for digital microfluidics

This paper makes a case for design-for-testability (DFT) for microfluidic biochips, and presents a DFT method that incorporates a test plan into the fluidic operations of a target bioassay protocol. By using the testability-aware bioassay protocol as an input to the biochip design tool, the proposed DFT method ensures a high level of testability, defined as the percentage of the electrodes or functional units on the synthesized chip that can be effectively tested.