Proteus VSM for ARM® LPC2000

Variants

The following is a current list of supported variants in the ARM7 family:

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

Features

We believe our simulation models are the most accurate and the most complete on the market today. A summary of model capabilities is listed below:

• Full support for both ARM and THUMB instruction sets.
• Supports all port and other I/O pin operations.
• Supports all on-chip peripherals (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.
• 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.).
• Fully integrated in to the VSM source level debugging system.
• Fully integrated into the Proteus Diagnostic Control System.

Limitations

The following is a listing of known limitations in the current version of the ARM7®:

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

Compilers

Supported Third Party 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.

We recommend you use the free Labcenter VSM Studio IDE. This will greatly simplify the task as it will automatically configure supported compilers to work with a Proteus VSM simulation.

If you prefer to work inside your own IDE then you will need to set your compiler options manually. After compiling for debug, all you need to do is specify the debug file from the compiler as the program property of the microcontroller on the schematic.