A new heterogeneous droplet routing technique and its simulator to improve route performance in digital microfluidic biochips

A design method based on Bayesian decision for routing-based digital microfluidic biochips

“…The routing-based synthesis technique eliminates the modular concept and allows the droplets to move freely across the chip during the detection process. 33–35 Therefore, the synthesis problem is transformed into a routing problem, and the problem is equivalent to a path planning problem. This problem is a nondeterministic polynomial (NP)-hard problem.…”