VHDL-AMS fault simulation for testing DNA bio-sensing arrays

Kerkhoff, H G and Zhang, X and Liu, H and Richardson, A and Nouet, P and Azais, F (2005) VHDL-AMS fault simulation for testing DNA bio-sensing arrays. In: 2005 IEEE SENSORS. IEEE, NEW YORK, pp. 1030-1033. ISBN 0-7803-9056-3

Abstract

the market of microelectronic fluidic arrays for biomedical applications, like DNA determination, is rapidly increasing. In order to evaluate these systems in terms of required Design-for-Test structures, fault simulations in both fluidic and electronic domains are necessary. VHDL-AMS can be used successfully in this case. This paper shows a highly testable architecture of a DNA Bio-Sensing array, its basic sensing concept, fluidic modeling and sensitivity analysis. The overall VHDL-AMS fault simulation of the system is presented.