Stochastic Computing Using Droplet-Based Microfluidics

This page presents a result obtained in the work published as:

W. Haselmayr, A. Grimmer, and R. Wille. Stochastic Computing Using Droplet-Based Microfluidics. In International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST), 2017. PDF

In that work, we consider the realization of stochastic computing in the microfluidic domain. To this end, we exploit the fact that both, the bit streams and the operations required for stochastic computing can be realized in microfluidic systems through droplet streams and microfluidic gates. Simulating the trajectory of the individual droplets through the microfluidic gates confirmed the validity of our approach. The following video shows the siumulation result for the multiplication of 0.7 x 0.9 (for more details, we refer to the paper linked above).