PROTEUS DESIGN SUITE Getting Started Guide COPYRIGHT NOTICE © Labcenter Electronics Ltd 1990-2019. All Rights Reserved. The Proteus software programs (Proteus Capture, PROSPICE Simulation, Schematic Capture and PCB Layout) and their associated library files, data files and documentation are copyright © Labcenter Electronics Ltd. All rights reserved. You have bought a licence to use the software on one machine at any one time; you do not own the software. Unauthorized copying, lending, or re-distribution of the software or documentation in any manner constitutes breach of copyright. Software piracy is theft. PROSPICE incorporates source code from Berkeley SPICE3F5 which is copyright © Regents of Berkeley University. Manufacturer’s SPICE models included with the software are copyright of their respective originators. The Qt GUI Toolkit is copyright © 2012 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies) and licensed under the LGPL version 2.1. Some icons are copyright © 2010 The Eclipse Foundation licensed under the Eclipse Public Licence version 1.0. Some executables are from binutils and are copyright © 2010 The GNU Project, licensed under the GPL 2. WARNING You may make a single copy of the software for backup purposes. However, you are warned that the software contains an encrypted serialization system. Any given copy of the software is therefore traceable to the master disk or download supplied with your licence. Proteus also contains special code that will prevent more than one copy using a particular licence key on a network at any given time. Therefore, you must purchase a licence key for each copy that you want to run simultaneously. DISCLAIMER No warranties of any kind are made with respect to the contents of this software package, nor its fitness for any particular purpose. Neither Labcenter Electronics Ltd nor any of its employees or sub-contractors shall be liable for errors in the software, component libraries, simulator models or documentation, or for any direct, indirect or consequential damages or financial losses arising from the use of the package. Users are particularly reminded that successful simulation of a design with the PROSPICE simulator does not prove conclusively that it will work when manufactured. It is always best to make a one off prototype before having large numbers of boards produced. Manufacturers’ SPICE models included with PROSPICE are supplied on an ‘as-is’ basis and neither Labcenter nor their originators make any warranty whatsoever as to their accuracy or functionality LABCENTER ELECTRONICS LTD. TABLE OF CONTENTS COPYRIGHT NOTICE .................................................................................................................. 1 © Labcenter Electronics Ltd 1990-2019. All Rights Reserved. ................................................ 1 WARNING ................................................................................................................................ 1 DISCLAIMER ........................................................................................................................... 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................... 3 SCHEMATIC CAPTURE TUTORIAL ........................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... 1 Creating a New Project ............................................................................................................ 2 Guided Tour ............................................................................................................................. 6 Zooming ................................................................................................................................... 7 Panning .................................................................................................................................... 8 Visual Aids to Design ............................................................................................................... 9 Keyboard Shortcuts .................................................................................................................. 9 Display Options ........................................................................................................................ 10 Design Overview ...................................................................................................................... 12 General Description ................................................................................................................. 12 Circuit Description .................................................................................................................... 13 Basic Schematic Entry ............................................................................................................. 14 Selecting Parts from the Library ............................................................................................... 14 Placing Objects on the Schematic ........................................................................................... 19 Wiring Up .................................................................................................................................. 23 Power Connections .................................................................................................................. 27 Part Labels and Annotation ...................................................................................................... 30 Timesaving Techniques & Block Editing .................................................................................. 32 Multi-Sheet Designs and Connectivity ..................................................................................... 36 Adding Sheets to a Design ....................................................................................................... 36 Naming, Ordering and Navigating Sheets ............................................................................... 37 Connectivity between Sheets ................................................................................................... 40 Gateswap ................................................................................................................................. 42 Preparing for PCB Layout ........................................................................................................ 44 Packaging Considerations ........................................................................................................ 44 To view the package associated with a component: ............................................................... 44 To change a package on a component.................................................................................... 45 To change a package on all components of a particular type ................................................. 46 Connectivity Considerations ..................................................................................................... 48 To specify a new net class ....................................................................................................... 49 Design Verification .................................................................................................................... 50 The Design Explorer ................................................................................................................. 50 Assembly Variants .................................................................................................................... 54 Bill of Materials ......................................................................................................................... 56 Printing ..................................................................................................................................... 63 Library Parts ............................................................................................................................. 64 Creating New Devices .............................................................................................................. 70 Graphics and Pins .................................................................................................................... 71 Adding Footprints ..................................................................................................................... 78 Adding Properties ..................................................................................................................... 82 Attaching a Datasheet .............................................................................................................. 84 Indexing and Library Selection ................................................................................................. 85 PCB LAYOUT TUTORIAL ............................................................................................................ 87 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 87 Overview of the Layout Editor .................................................................................................. 87 The Main Window ..................................................................................................................... 88 The Control Bar .......................................................................................................................