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From the simulation results, we find that when the clock frequency of the T phase
increases, the completion time of PCR bioassay on the pin-limited biochip does not
decrease significantly. This is because the time for droplet transportation in the PCR
bioassay is relatively low.

7.5 Chapter Summary and Conclusions

In this chapter, we discussed a solution for metal wire routing on pin-limited
biochip. The proposed method can guarantee that with a two-metal-layer fabrication
technique, all the widely-used pin-limited biochips are routable. In order to reduce
the cost of the cyberphysical biochip, we also proposed the design flow for pin-
limited cyberphysical microfluidic biochip. The simulation results show that, the
proposed method can reduce the number of control pins and facilitate the “general-
purpose” use of cyberphysical digital microfluidic biochips for a wide range of
applications.

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