Getting Started With Proteus

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So now let’s have a look at different features Proteus offers. I have a full registered version of
Proteus but I can’t post it here as its not allowed so if someone need it then Subscribe to our
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So now I suppose you have installed Proteus and ready to work on it.

 Click on Proteus ISIS and it will be appear as shown in image below. Right click the
image and open in new tab to get a better look of the image. In the central area, we
design our circuit i.e. place the components and then join them.

 In the below image, I have divided the Proteus in several sections. Section 1 is a
toolbar which you have seen on many software, it has simple functionality like first
icon on the toolbar is to create a new layout, second is to open an existing layout, next
one is to save your layout, then there comes few zooming options and also some tools
which we will further discuss in next tutorials and at the end of section 1, you can see
ARES icon and we will also see its use when we will design the PCB layout.
 Let’s come to section 2, it has two buttons on it, one is P and other is E. P changes
with the selection change of section 3 mostly it is used for opening the part list i.e
component list and E is used for editing purposes, like you want to edit the properties
of any component then simply click on that component and then click on E and it will
open the properties of that component and you can easily edit it.
 Section 3 is most commonly used section of proteus. It has a lot of functions on it. We
will check them today one by one in complete detail.
 Now finally the section 4, this section shows different buttons like play, stop etc.
When you design some circuit in Proteus, then you want to run it in order to check
whether its working or not. So in order to run the circuit, you have to click on this
play button. So when you click on play button the circuit starts to run, now click on
Pause button and it will pause and Stop to stop the circuit running.
 Now let’s discuss the section 3, one by one. In the below image you can see the icon
on which I have written Click # 1.When you click on this icon, your Proteus goes in
the component state. We select components by clicking this icon. Suppose I want to
use PIC16F877A in my circuit so what will I do, I will click on this Component Mode
Icon and then Click on the P button and a new window will open up as shown in the
below figure.
 In this new window there’s a textbox on which Keyword is written, this text box is
used for the component search. Proteus database has unlimited components in it so
now in order to get your desired component, you have to search for it as I did.
 I have search PIC16F877A and proteus automatically show me that component as you
can see below and not only the component name but also its preview in the top right
corner and then the PCB preview as well. Unfortunately my Proteus doesn’t have the
PCB preview of PIC16F877A that’s why it is showing blank.
 So after you are sure that you have selected the right component, either double click
on it or click on the OK button as shown in figure below.
 If I just want to search one component then I will click OK but its not mostly the case
as in circuit design, as we will see in our next classes, we have to add a lot of
components so what we do is we simply search our component in text box and double
click on it and then search the next component and so on.
 Now move to next icon as shown in figure below. This is also another most commonly
used icon in Proteus. As you can see when you click on it the white are shows few options. In
circuit designing, there are lot of components which are getting with ground or power up, so
if we are gonna add wires for each of them then it got quite messy.
 Proteus provide a very easy way of doing it. Ground and Power , as shown below, are
treated as component so wherever we need GND we simply pick the Ground from here and
place it there and same for the Power. Default value of this Power is +5V.
 The icon shown in the below figure also used quite often. It has many components
which are very useful and this section is used for visualization. Like there’s an
oscilloscope, we use it for viewing the behavior of different signals generated. Its as
same as an oscialloscope you found in your lab.
 Another important component of this mode is the Virtual Terminal, it is shown on the
fourth number. This Virtual Terminal is used for checking data coming through Serial
Port. Its just like the hyper terminal we have in our windows.
 Then there’s Signal Generator, it is used to generate signal like sine wave of desired
frequency.
 You can test them by yourself to get a better idea.

 Now, let check few of them quickly, the icon which I have shown by A is the Graph
mode. Like in some circuit you want to analyze the graphs of voltage and current then
you can do this using the graph mode, it has different style of graphs. We will also
add a tutorial in which we will see how to make graphs.
 B and C in the below figure are the voltage and current probes respectively. Suppose
you have designed some circuit in Proteus and now you want to check the value of
voltage at any point in the circuit. In order to do so, simply select this voltage probe
and place it there and when you run your circuit, the probe will show the value of
voltage above it and same for current probe.
 D has lots of functionality, it is used when we want to design our own component in
proteus.
 E in the below figure is simply text section, like you want to add some text indication
you use this one.