Short Circuit: Introduction to PROTEUS

Proteus is a Design Suite also know as Virtual System Modeling (VSM) offering the ability to simulate micro-controller code and also circuits.

So if you are willing to design hardware and software this is a great tool to star with. In this case Proteus ISIS is for simulation from the schematic form of the hardware and also the micro-controller code. It is possible to develop and test designs before a physical prototype is constructed.

I think that says it all about what Proteus is and it is for (can be use for more things).

Proteus ISIS combines ease of use with powerful editing tools as a very high degree of control over the drawing appearance, in terms of line widths, fill styles, fonts, etc.. It is capable of supporting schematic capture for simulation.

As for Proteus ARES is for PCB designs to make your own devices using the PCB layout tools and provides a powerful, integrated and easy to use suite of tools for professional PCB Design.

You can design your packages and footprints for your projects and so much more.

When you are designing you have to take into account so many things that you´ll have to use more than just one software but, why not to use this one that handles most of the thing we are going to need the other software for? That´s why i´m sharing with you want I´ll be learning using, this as I like to call, tool.

Let´s get started.

This is the first windows you´ll see every day you open Proteus, this is the home screen.

To create a new project we just simply click on "New project"

or we can go to File > New project

It will ask what do you want the project and the path (File destination on your computer) we want it to be stored

If it is needed you add templates to your projects or just pick one of the defaults on the screen, this selection will be the size of the document (in this case te schematics) in case we want to print it out.

Now we want also select one of the default but remember that this time we´ll be selecting the Layout template.

After selecting the template or creating a new one, we have to click on either use a firmware already on the Proteus Library or other that we will have to tell the software where it is located.