Browsing by Author "Wang, Sying-Jyan"

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A Layout-Aware Test Methodology for Silicon Interposer in 3D System-in-a-Package
(2013)
Gu, Ruei-Ting
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Ho, Cheng-You
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Li, Katherine Shu-Min
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Ho, Yingchieh
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Chen, Liang-Bi
In this paper, we propose an efficient silicon interposer pre-test methodology, which is based on the layout-aware ripple baseline algorithm for System-in-a-Package (SiP). The proposed methodology uses FPGA as our test vehicle that can test all interconnects at once without any test probes. The test interposer is synthesized according to the given layout of the target interposers, which provide microbumps and solder balls with pitches, and the test interposers are connected to the upper test side of the target interposers. Thus the test loops, which cover all interconnections of the target interposers, are built by connecting the test interposers and the target interposers. The bottom side of the target interposer is connected to an FPGA as the tester that provides test patterns to the target interposer and compares the result to identify the faulty interconnections of the target interposer. Experimental results show our method is both effective and efficient with achieving 100% fault coverage for all interposers. With scaling to more than hundreds of hundreds interposers, our method is still effective within two to three hours.
Co-placement optimization in sensor-reusable cyber-physical digital microfluidic biochips
(2019-01-01)
Li, Jian-De
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Kuo, Chun-Hao
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Lu, Guan-Ruei
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Wang, Sying-Jyan
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Li, Katherine Shu-Min
Digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) facilitate modern healthcare applications. One of the most important applications is point-of-care (POC) clinical diagnosis which is directly related to human health. However, biochemical experiments are usually error-prone, which makes monitoring intermediate results during bioassay execution be required to ensure the correctness of POC clinical diagnosis. To tackle this problem, cyber-physical digital microfluidic biochips with integrated sensors have been proposed and have attracted attention recently. In order to fully utilize the sensors for detection, the reusability of sensors should be taken into consideration during the module placement stage of cyber-physical DMFBs synthesis flow. Moreover, excessive actuation of electrodes may cause reliability degradation and this issuse should also be taken care of during module placement stage. In order to deal with the aforementioned problems, this paper presents the first co-optimization method for both module and sensor placement. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively minimize bioassay completion time while meeting all constraints from sensors and electrodes.