Use cases

Start with the hardware work your team already needs to do.

Circuitly reviews schematics and layout in full context, creates library parts from datasheets, keeps the approved library consistent, designs bounded circuit blocks, and watches the BOM — each with the inputs, engineering output, and human decision point defined.

Connected review

Review the change, not just the schematic.

A Circuitly review spans schematic and layout together, and runs against everything the change touches: the firmware that drives the pins, the requirements the rail must hold, MCAD outline and keep-outs, the datasheets, the revision history, and your own engineering standards. Findings arrive with evidence attached — and wait for an engineer to approve them.

REVISIONSREQUIREMENTSFIRMWAREDATASHEETSMCADSTANDARDS git · rev A → B → Crequirements.md · REQ-PWR-04adc_cal.c:118TPS54331.pdf §8.2outline · keep-outsreview-checklist.md diff B→Ccoveragepin map · cal constantslimits §8.2fityour rules Schematic + layoutreview sensor_gateway_revC.kicad_sch · .kicad_pcb Review record 3 findingsevidence linked ENGINEER APPROVES REVISIONSINTENT + RULESFIRMWAREPARTS + MECHANICAL rev A → B → Creqs · checklistpin map · caldatasheets · MCAD Schematic + layout review revC · sch + pcb Review record · 3 findings ENGINEER APPROVES
Revision diffs, requirements coverage, firmware pin maps and calibration constants, datasheet limits, MCAD fit, and your review rules all feed one schematic-and-layout review; findings wait for an engineer's approval.

Four more capabilities

The same harness, pointed at the rest of the work.

Review is where most teams start. The library, the BOM, and the bounded design block run through the same connected context and the same rule: Circuitly prepares the work, an engineer approves it.

PART CREATION

From datasheet PDF to reviewable symbol and footprint.

Circuitly reads the datasheet and your library conventions, then generates the part as native library files your librarian approves — instead of an engineer transcribing pin tables.

TPS54331 → symbol + IPC-7351 footprint
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LIBRARY MANAGEMENT

One approved library, kept consistent while projects move.

Duplicates, footprint drift, stale datasheets, and post-approval EOL surface as an audit with proposed fixes — and the library owner decides what changes.

2 symbols for STM32F103C8T6 → 1
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DESIGN

A 3V3/2A buck stage you review as a diff.

Delegate the bounded, mid-complexity block — grounded in your library and the datasheets, with assumptions written down — and keep the architecture yours.

power-spec.md → proposed schematic diff
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BOM OPTIMIZATION

When U5 goes end-of-life, arrive with alternates — not a respin.

The BOM is monitored between revisions, and every candidate substitution is scored against the circuit it serves, trade-offs stated, for an engineer to approve.

U5 LTB → 3 alternates, trade-offs stated
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Scenario library

Eleven ways teams put the harness to work.

Each scenario defines the inputs, the engineering output, and the human decision point — so you can pick the first workflow by value, context, and risk.

Review and understand

BEFORE LAYOUT

New schematic review

Understand architecture, inspect requirements coverage, surface potential issues, and resolve open questions.

Open use case
RESPIN OR OWNERSHIP CHANGE

Legacy design understanding

Reconstruct design intent and dependencies before changing an inherited or under-documented design.

Open use case
EXTERNAL WORK

Contractor and vendor review

Compare delivered work against requirements, standards, interfaces, and the agreed design boundary.

Open use case

Review, connected

EVERY REVISION

Revision and release review

Review each diff and release candidate with full context before it ships.

Open use case
INTENT

Requirements traceability

Know which requirements the design satisfies — and which nobody has covered.

Open use case
SOURCING

Component and supply-chain risk

Catch EOL parts, stock cliffs, and single-source exposure during review.

Open use case
YOUR STANDARDS

Organization-specific checks

Your Markdown checklists and standards, applied on every review.

Open use case

Share and prepare

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL

Design handoff

Prepare architecture, interfaces, known constraints, decisions, and open questions for layout, firmware, sourcing, manufacturing, or a new owner.

Open use case
TEAM KNOWLEDGE

Onboard a new engineer

Give a new contributor a grounded path through the design instead of a folder dump and tribal knowledge.

Open use case
BEFORE PLACEMENT

Pre-layout checks

Resolve layout-sensitive assumptions, constraints, interfaces, and missing context before they become board rework.

Open use case
BEFORE THE BOARD ARRIVES

Bring-up preparation

Translate the design record into expected rails, interfaces, test points, sequencing, and investigation paths.

Open use case

Choose the first workflow by value, context, and risk.

We’ll help identify a bounded use case where your team can learn quickly without weakening engineering control.

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