Patent ID: 7552024

Claim:
A diagnostic system for testing a circuit (the “UUT”) having input and/or output signal ports, comprising: one or more test instruments each defining input and/or output signal ports; an interface connectable to the UUT ports; a multipoint switch matrix connectable between the UUT interface and the instrument ports; a graphical display capable of displaying a schematic image of the UUT including the UUT ports and icons representing the instrument ports; a user input device; a processor capable of directing actual electrical connections made automatically between the UUT ports and the instrument ports, without the necessity for manually reconfiguring connections between the UUT ports and the instrument ports, via the switch matrix corresponding and in response to a user graphically indicating a desired connection between selected UUT ports and selected instrument ports, input through the input device and displayed graphically on the display, and capable of directing test functions input by the user to be performed on the UUT; a communications bus connected between and capable of communicating between the other system components; and a memory device capable of tracking and storing a sequence of the port connections and test function actions.