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Montreal
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Canada
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<p style="text&#8211;align: justify;">CASFEST 2016 will highlight the topic of “Lab on CMOS Systems” and will take place in conjunction with ISCAS 2016 in Montreal&#046; Many CAS researchers have embraced the emerging concept of directly integrating active electronics into traditional passive lab&#8211;on&#8211;chip (LOC) systems, creating a new class of lab&#8211;on&#8211;CMOS (LOCMOS) systems – highly integrated multiphysics lab on chip systems that integrate instrumentation in intimate contact with sensing and actuation capabilities&#046;</p> <p style="text&#8211;align: justify;">Most lab&#8211;on&#8211;chip systems are based on passive substrates and are limited to use as passive chips in labs&#046; These chips in labs must typically be used in conjunction with large benchtop equipment for sensing and control, missing the opportunity for systems with a smaller footprint and a instruments with their integrated circuit equivalents&#046; In such systems, the CMOS components are often used for sensing purposes and sometimes for signal processing, detection, and actuation as well&#046; This reduces the need for external instrumentation, leading to overall systems with significantly smaller size and also the potential for completely novel measurements that cannot be performed using traditional approaches&#046;</p> <p style="text&#8211;align: justify;">The integration of active chips into lab&#8211;on&#8211;chip systems poses a number of distinct and vexing specifically attributable to biological and fluidic domains (including electrochemistry, packaging, surfaces, sterilization, microfabrication, and microfluidics), and new versions of classical challenges in system&#8211;on&#8211;chip integration&#046;</p><p style="text&#8211;align: justify;"><br></p>