A microfluidic system is provided for separating components of many fluid samples in a parallel fashion through an array of capillary conduits. The virtual exit port, for example, comprises one or more storage locations of the library that are defined as a virtual port. Furthermore, using the lag parameter code and gain parameter code of the current frame obtained at data separation section 201 and the mode information, lag parameter decoding section 204 and gain parameter decoding section 205 adaptively calculate a lag parameter and gain parameter to be used in the current frame according to the mode information. Memory isolation may be combined with controlled, closed memory map switching performed only by trusted code, to ensure that some protected memory is inaccessible to all but the trusted code.