Abstract: A microfluidic viscometer includes a microfluidic viscometer including a microfluidic device having a glass layer and a PDMS layer attached on top of the glass layer and having a plurality of microfluidic channels each having inlets at one end and coupled to one another via a single chamber at distal end, the microfluidic channels configured to convey a plurality of fluids from respective inlets to the distal end, the plurality of fluids including at least one fluid with known viscosity and one or more fluids of interest with unknown viscosity, and an imaging device configured to acquire images of fluid flows within the microfluidic channels and having a viscosity measurement analyzer configured to calculate viscosity parameters of the plurality of fluids, analyze and compare the viscosity parameters, and measure the viscosity of the fluid of interest based at least in part on the viscosity parameters.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatic generation of at least one block representing a driver function for a block-based modeling environment, wherein the driver function serves to control a hardware element of a target hardware unit, the method including preparing a description of the driver function in a formal language, reading in and evaluating the formal-language description of the driver function, and generating the block representing the driver function for modeling of the driver function in a block diagram of the modeling environment.