SOFTWARE SYSTEMS FOR DEVELOPMENT, CONTROL, PROGRAMMING, SIMULATION, AND EMULATION OF FIXED AND RECONFIGURABLE LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES

A software system for development, control, programming, simulation, and emulation of fixed, software-configurable, software-reconfigurable, and software-controlled Lab-on-a-chip (“LoC”) devices. Files may be used to specify LoC configurations for models, emulation, and fabrication, and scripts can be implemented to control numerical simulations as well as physical emulations of modeled LoC devices. Other features include a control software design tool, fabrication design systems, and an authoring/editing tool for specification files. In some cases, an active data visualization system provides visualizations of real-time data generated by past and current simulations and emulations.