3rd party ARM2000

Proteus VSM for ARM7/LPC2000

Proteus VSM for ARM7 contains everything you need to develop, test and virtually prototype your embedded system designs based around the Phillips LPC2000 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 ARM7/LPC2000 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 ARM7/LPC2000 variants in your own schematics.
  • 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 IAR environment, or via other supported compilers.

Purchasing Options

Proteus VSM for ARM7/LPC2000 is the full professional family and includes all currently supported ARM7 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 ARM7/LPC2000 Variant Set:

  • LPC2104, LPC2105, LPC2106
  • LPC2114, LPC2124
  • LPC2131, LPC2132, LPC2134, LPC2136, LPC2138 - NEW
  • LPC2101, LPC2102, LPC2103 - NEW
  • RM7TDMI and ARM7TDMI-S core models.

Supported Features

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

  • Full support for both ARM and THUMB instruction sets.
  • Supports all port and other I/O pin operations.
  • Supports all on-chip peripherals including GPIO, timers, RTC, U(S)ARTs, SPI, I2C, MAM, PLL & ADC.
  • Supports full functionality of the VIC interrupt system.
  • Up to 10MIPS simulation throughput on 3GHz PC.
  • Load and debug any ELF/DWARF2 program file.
  • Debugger drivers available for IAR Embedded Workbench and Keil UV3.

Unique Productivity Enhancements with Proteus VSM for ARM7/LPC2000:

  • Internally generated processor clock for performance. Event timing accurate to one clock period.
  • 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.
  • more... Fully integrated into the Proteus Diagnostic Control System.

Main Limitations:

  • The bootloader is not modelled.
  • The JTAG interfaces and in-circuit programming modes are not supported.

Supported Compilers

Proteus VSM models will fundamentally work with the exact same HEX file as you would program the physical device with. However, far more debugging information is available when using a compiler to write the firmware and providing these object files to Proteus in place of the HEX file provides a much richer working environment. More information on supported compilers can be found here.

"Proteus is without a doubt the best schematic entry, PCB design, and simulation package for the money. It rivals software such as Protel DXP in many areas, but it is easier to use. The standard autorouter in Proteus does an excellent job and saves us a lot of time as well. We are very pleased with the product and recommened it to anyone that wants a high end tool package for a reasonable price, you won't be disappointed with Proteus -- in addition, their customer support is #1, their techs are expert at simulation, PCB layout and schematic entry and can help you with any problems you might have with their tool "

- Andre Lamothe - CEO Nurve Networks LLC.

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