With the rise of microfluidic chips in the field of biotechnology over the past decade, the functionality and structure of the microfluidic chips are gaining increasing complexity, which complicates the process of designing them. In recent years, researchers have aimed to replace the manual design process with an automated design process for complicated microfluidic devices and proposed promising solutions. However, the applicable scope of such design automation software is highly dependent on the variety of microfluidic modules it can provide. As new types of microfluidic components have been continuously developed nowadays, the module library of the design automation software needs to be constantly updated. With conventional design software like AutoCAD, module developers need to manually describe layer interactions within the module, making the design process very inefficient.
This thesis will introduce Module Sketch, an interactive web-based design platform for microfluidic components. Module Sketch provides a comprehensive solution to simplify the work of designing new components and an easily accessible platform to support the development of microfluidic intellectual property (IP) modules.
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With the rise of microfluidic chips in the field of biotechnology over the past decade, the functionality and structure of the microfluidic chips are gaining increasing complexity, which complicates the process of designing them. In recent years, researchers have aimed to replace the manual design process with an automated design process for complicated microfluidic devices and proposed promising solutions. However, the applicable scope of such design automation software is highly dependent on t...
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