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The builder

Schematic

The bench wiring, drawn between your configured instruments and the device under test, and readable as an ordered hookup checklist.

A test sequence is only correct if the bench is wired the way the sequence assumes. The Schematic pane makes that assumption explicit and puts it next to the test that depends on it.

The Schematic pane.
Sources on the left and below, measurement on the right, the DUT in the middle as a real package with named pins.

How it is laid out

The device under test drawn as an IC package labelled PMIC BOARD with gold pin stubs labelled VIN 1, GND 2 and VOUT 3.
The DUT is drawn as a package with gold pin stubs, and its pins are named and numbered. With a datasheet attached, those names come from the datasheet.
Schematic wiring: a red wire labelled 1 banana and a grey wire labelled 2 banana running from the DUT down to the CH1 plus and CH1 minus terminals of a Keithley power supply.
Each wire carries its hookup order and its cable type. Wire 1 and wire 2 are banana leads to the supply's + and − terminals, drawn as two separate wires because that is how you actually connect them.
  • Instruments sit in zones around the DUT: sources on the left, measurement on the right.
  • The DUT is drawn as an IC package with named pin stubs. Power and enable pins on the left or top, grounds at the bottom, outputs on the right.
  • Wires are colour-coded by electrical class, so a ground is visually a ground.
  • With a datasheet attached, pin names come from the datasheet rather than being invented.

It is a checklist, not just a picture

The wire list is ordered the way you would actually hook it up.

A chip in the corner of the schematic pane reading Wiring, 0 of 3.
Wires tick off as you connect them.
PropertyWhat it carriesWhy
OrderGrounds first, then power, then signals, comms last.The order that does not damage anything.
Cable typeBanana, probe, BNC, USB, GPIB, LAN, twisted pair, wire.So you know what to pick up, not just where it goes.
NoteA one-line warning, only where it prevents a real mistake.Current limit, short ground lead. Not decoration.
Setup notesUp to four bench preconditions.Output off while wiring, rail voltage and current limit, shared ground, with real values from the workflow.

When it gets wired

Ask for it, and the agent wires it. It also wires the schematic on its own after building a brand-new test, when instruments are configured, because a new test is exactly when nobody knows the hookup yet. It does not re-wire on small edits.

Prompt

Wire the schematic for this test. The DUT is the LT8640S in the MSOP-16 package, EN on pin 3.