Programmable circuit board and method of use
AssigneeItera, Inc.
InventorsAshley Cooper, Mattis Fjällström, Alex Withrow
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Abstract
A programmable circuit board, preferably including: a rig, a reservoir, and working metal, wherein the rig preferably includes a set of unit cells cooperatively defined by a stack of substrates and a set of driver elements. A method for dynamically programming a circuit board, preferably including: receiving a circuit board design; determining a unit cell map; positioning working metal; optionally assembling a remainder of circuit board components; optionally testing the assembled PCB analog; and/or optionally updating the physical PCB analog configuration.
Claims20
A programmable circuit board system comprising:
- a substrate including a first surface;
- an array of electrical control cells arranged at the substrate;
- a dielectric, the dielectric coating at least some of the first surface;
- and
- a working metal;
- wherein:
- the system comprises an array of pixels, wherein each pixel of the array of pixels comprises:
- a respective substrate portion of the substrate comprising a respective surface portion of the first surface;
- a respective electrical control cell of the array of electrical control cells, the respective electrical control cell arranged at the respective portion of the substrate;
- and
- a respective dielectric portion of the dielectric, the respective dielectric portion coating the respective surface portion;
- and
- the system is operable to:
- receive a map indicative of a plurality of conductor pixels selected from the array of pixels;
- and
- configure the working metal based on the map, comprising controlling the array of electrical control cells such that, for each conductor pixel of the plurality:
- a respective working metal portion of the working metal moves to the conductor pixel due to electrowetting forces such that the respective working metal portion contacts the respective dielectric portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.