A disposable, self-contained PCR chip

A disposable, self-contained PCR chip.

A disposable, self-contained polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chip with on-board stored, just-on-time releasable, paraffin-passivated, dry reagents is described. During both storage and sample preparation, the paraffin immobilizes and protects the stored reagents. Fluid flow through the reactor leaves the reagents undisturbed. Prior to the amplification step, the chamber is filled with target an...

A self-contained, disposable oxygenator of plastic sheet for intracardiac surgery; experimental development and clinical application.

A palmtop PCR system with a disposable polymer chip operated by the thermosiphon effect.

A small thermocyling system to perform DNA amplification by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is presented in this report. PCR reactants are convected along a triangular closed-loop channel in a polymer chip by the thermosiphon effect. In an effort to develop a convection-based PCR for real application, we adopted a molded channel to define the flow path inside the chip, so that the chip may be s...

Everything on the Chip: A Hardware-Based Self-Contained Spatially-Structured Genetic Algorithm for Signal Processing

Evolutionary algorithms are useful optimization tools but are very time consuming to run. We present a self-contained FPGAbased implementation of a spatially-structured evolutionary algorithm that provides significant speedup over conventional serial processing in three ways: (a) efficient hardware-pipelined fitness evaluation of individuals, (b) evaluation of an entire population of individual...

Self-contained CLI Assemblies

High-level programming languages and bytecode-based virtual execution environments have become popular in software development. Bytecode-based runtimes extend embedded system by techniques to improve safety, help portability and interoperability. The ECMA/ISO Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specifies a bytecodebased execution environment (Common Language Runtime) and a comprehensive class ...