• What is Proteus VSM
• VSM in Education
• Competitive Analysis
• VSM for ARM/LPC2000
• VSM for PIC10 / PIC12
• VSM for PIC16
• VSM for PIC18
• VSM for PIC24
• VSM PIC Bundle
• VSM for AVR
• VSM for 8051
• VSM for HC11
• VSM for BASIC Stamp
  • Introduction
  • Product Summary
  • Purchasing Options
  • Supported Variants
  • Supported Features
  • Supported Compilers
  • Additional Resources
• Proteus USB Simulation
• Advanced Simulation
• Supported Compilers
• Peripheral Models

Proteus VSM for Basic Stamp

Proteus VSM for Basic Stamp contains everything you need to develop, test and virtually prototype your embedded system designs based around the popular Basic Stamp series of microcontrollers. The unique nature of schematic based microcontroller simulation with Proteus facilitates rapid, flexible and parallel development of both the system hardware and the system firmware. This design synergy allows engineers to evolve their projects more quickly, empowering them with the flexibility to make hardware or firmware changes at will and reducing the time to market. Proteus VSM is discussed in more detail here.

Product Summary

Proteus VSM for Basic Stamp Includes:

• A full professional licence of the ISIS Schematic Capture package, allowing you to create your own schematics for simulation.
• A full licence for the interactive VSM simulation engine, enabling you to both simulate and interact with your entire system prior to prototyping.
• Ability to fully simulate Basic Stamp variants in your own schematics - the Basic Stamp Starter Kit allows simulation of the BS2 variant only.
• Thousands of standard peripheral models and embedded peripheral models are available for the simulation of your own projects.
• Measurement and analysis with over a dozen industrial grade virtual instruments (DSO, Logic Analyser, I2C Protocol Analyser, etc.)
• System wide diagnostics allowing you to receive detailed trace messaging on components of your choice and/or the system as a whole during simulation.
• Full debugging capabilities either via Proteus VSM's internal system, through direct integration with the MPLAB environment or via other supported compilers.

Purchasing Options

The Basic Stamp Starter Kit is the entry level purchase and includes the BS2 variant only.

Proteus VSM for Basic is the full professional family and includes all currently supported Basic Stamp variants (see below).

Analysis capabilities can be upgraded to include Graph Based Simulation via the Advanced Simulation Options module.

For a truly complete design solution schematics can be netlisted to one of our integrated PCB Design products for physical board layout.

Please see the commercial price list for pricing information or contact us to further discuss requirements.

Supported Variants

Currently modelled Basic Stamp Variant Set:

• BS1, BS2
• BS2e, BS2sx, BS2p24, BS2p40, BS2pe

Supported Features

Proteus VSM simulates all the features of the real device including:

• The entire command set, including the extended commands of the 2p series.
• Scratch RAM read and write.
• Multi-slot programs
• Pseudo interrupts using the POLLx commands.
• Auxillary I/O capability of the 40 pin, BS2p40 device.
• The complete SERIN/SEROUT formatter list.
• BS2 DEBUG command and the internal UART for serial communications.

Unique Productivity Enhancements with Proteus VSM for PIC18:

• Internally generated processor clock for performance. Event timing accurate to one clock period.
• Built-in tokenizer - no need to run a separate compiler, just attached your BASIC source file to the schematic part and then press play.
• Provides internal consistency checks on code (e.g. execution of invalid op-codes, illegal memory accesses, stack overflow checking, etc.).
• more... Fully integrated in to the VSM source level debugging system.

Supported Compilers

Proteus VSM For BASIC Stamp supports a wide range of industry-standard compilers and tools. More information on supported compilers can be found here.

Additional Resources

VSM Virtual Stampworks is a set of Proteus VSM sample designs corresponding with the Stampworks Experimenters kit from Parallax™.

If you are interested in robotics, why not take a look at eyeWyre - a full 3D animated robotics simulation environment for the BS2.