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SUMMARY:From Field Programmable Gate Arrays to Laboratories-on-Chip
DTSTART:20140124T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T011206Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Philip Brisk\, University of California\nBio: Dr. Brisk 
 received the B.S.\, M.S.\, and Ph.D. degrees\, all in Computer Science\, f
 rom UCLA in 2002\, 2003\, and 2006 respectively. From 2006-2009\, he was a
  postdoctoral scholar at the EPFL Processor Architecture Laboratory. Since
  2009\, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer S
 cience and Engineering at the University of California\, Riverside. His re
 search interests include programmable microfluidics and laboratory-on-a-ch
 ip technology\, FPGA architecture and CAD\, and embedded processors with a
 pplication-specific and/or reconfigurable accelerators.\nThe Application o
 f Computer Engineering Principles to Programmable Biochemistry\nEmerging l
 aboratory-on-a-chip (LoC) technology is poised to revolutionize various as
 pects of biochemistry through automation\, miniaturization\, and programma
 bility.\nIn this talk\, I will start by illuminating principle similaritie
 s between LoCs and the semiconductor industry\, focusing on Field Programm
 able Gate Arrays (FPGAs)\; specifically\, I will introduce the problem of 
 FPGA routing\, and point out situations where near-identical problems occu
 r in the design and software control of several different LoC technologies
 . Next\, I will describe two recent algorithmic contributions to FPGA rout
 ing that reduce the runtime and memory footprint. The final part of the ta
 lk will introduce a programming language\, compiler\, and runtime framewor
 k to enable scientists to execute biological protocols on LoCs. Software c
 ontrol\, coupled with integrated sensors\, provides a cyber-physical contr
 ol loop. For the first time\, scientists can conceptualize\, specify\, and
  automatically execute biological protocols that involve real-time decisio
 n-making based on sensory feedback. As a proof of concept\, I have impleme
 nted a software-based fault tolerance scheme within the framework and eval
 uated its execution.
LOCATION:ME B1 B10 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=en&room=MEB1B10
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