EDA flows into lab-on-chip automation.

The article reports on the implementation of electronic design automation (EDA) techniques to automate the design and operation of microfluidic laboratories-on-chip initiated by researchers. According to Professor Tamal Mukherjee, they have automated place-and-route algorithms for microfluidic chips that affords a tenfold reduction in design time over hand-tuned place and route. However, the lack of standardization is the major obstacle in creating microfluids algorithms.