Design of Reconngurable Composite Microsystems Based on Hardware/software Co-design Principles 1
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Custom microsystems are expensive, innexible, and unsuitable for high-volume production. We address this problem by leveraging hardware/software co-design principles to design reconngurable composite microsystems. We partition the system design parameters into nonre-conngurable and reconngurable categories. In this way, the operational exibility is enhanced and the microsys-tems are designed for a wider range of application. In addition, the Taguchi robust design and the response surface methodologies are used to make the system robust. A case study is presented for a microvalve, which serves as a representative microelectroouidic device.
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