Proteus VSM for the propeller

Jooy · 2011-10-28 03:33

As a user of Proteus, I want to simulate my design on Proteus, but I can not find the VSM for the propeller. Has anyone alread have it? Where could I get the VSM?

Leon · 2011-10-28 03:44

I think you will find that very few, if any, professional developers use Proteus. It seems to be a waste of money even for simple 8-bit devices, given the problems I've seen people have with it. The Microchip forums are full of posts from people (they seem to be hobbyists and students) complaining that their program works perfectly when simulated in Proteus, but won't work on the actual hardware.

FriedV · 2011-10-28 06:53

Maybe this is right for the Microchip world, I don't use those. For the AVR world the simulations are quite good and the support is excellent.
System integration (ISIS,VMS,ARES) works very well. As far as the propeller goes, I think that developing a model for those would be quite
difficult. But you should ask Ettore from Labcenter concerning that.
Just my 2c, Friedrich

Jooy · 2011-11-01 04:05

Propeller is a new chip to me. Is there other method to simulate designs to verify my code?
Thanks!

Jooy

Sariel · 2011-11-01 10:20

Propeller is a new chip to me. Is there other method to simulate designs to verify my code?

I prefer the tried and true method. Make yourself a decent Dev station with all the bells and whistles that you would need in 90% of your work, and test on the actual hardware. ATM, I am using a platform I designed and built that has a 64k EEPROM, SD card slot, DS1307 (with battery), Video resistor network, 2x20 Newhaven LCD (recent addition to be added later.. for now it flops loose), 4 way D-Pad with center button (needs to be integrated with the jumpers... someday), plus all of the voltage regulators and what nots, and jumper selectable Bananna Jack/Battery supply inputs good from about 6 volts to around 12 volts.. I tied all of those goodies to specific pins through a series of jumpers. This lets me select if I want to use the devices, or the pins by themselves. Finally, each I/O (or related jumper) terminates to a 2x16 Header that I put solder beads on so at any time I can run the I/O's to my breadboards.

And, for the firmware side of it, I made a read-only file I use as a template that has all of the pins labled, needed objects pre-defined, Init routines alredy done. All I have to do from there is do a "Save As", remove what I am not going to need for the current project, and start hammering out the code. Once my design is verified on my proven Dev station, I can go about designing the final hardware. I made that my first serious project with the propeller, and it serves me quite well. Plus, in the building of it, I learned a lot about the language and each individual part involved.

OH! One more thing! I used all socketed parts, just in case I happen to let the "magic smoke" out, and that happens to even the best of us once in a while.

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Proteus VSM for the propeller

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