PROTEUS : Electronic Design Automation Software Review/Technical Review [ PART 1]

Our generation constantly gets bored. It takes them forever to look for something new and exciting, everyone is willing to try different things so as to get a good experience out of it. Be it in any field, it is difficult to stand out today. Looking at the website of Proteus, I must say they are taking this aspect seriously.
Proteus design software is a package put together by Labcenter Electronics to give you a novel simulation and printed circuit board (PCB) designing experience. What makes this tool special? What new features does it have to offer?


Proteus design kit has about 785 microcontroller variants ready for simulation, straight from the schematic. Be it Atmel, Microchip or ARM, once you get a hang of the tool, you need not worry about the impending platform. Design, Test and Debug complete embedded systems inside Proteus schematic capture before ordering a physical prototype. Proteus VSM brings AGILE development to the embedded workflow.

WHY DOES PROTEUS STAND OUT?
Library: The supplied libraries cover a large range of through hole components including all the most common IC, transistor, diode and connector packaging types. They also supply as standard the full IEC libraries and SMT footprints which include all the standard discrete and IC packaging styles. Both the IPC-782 and the IPC-7351 standard surface mount standard libraries are included.

More importantly, they include both an integrated web search import and a dialogue based import tool for CAD parts that provides access to over 13.99 million parts via popular vendors such as SamacSys Library Loader, SnapEDA, PCB Library Expert and Ultra-Librarian.