SIMULATION WITH PROTEUS

&

INTERFACING WITH ARDUINO

One day workshop report for the students of 6th semester in

Electrical Engineering Department,

GMIT, Bhavnagar 01ST JAN 2018

Report prepared by

Utsav Yagnik Assistant Professor,

Electrical Engineering Dept. GMIT, BHAVNAGAR

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INDEX

Sr. No. Title Page No.

1 Acknowledgement 3

2 Participants and lecturer Profiles

4

3 Objective 5

4 Key points of workshop 6

5 Glimpses of the workshop 8

6 Major Outcomes 9

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Acknowledgement

We express our feeling of gratitude to Prof. Nitin Adroja & Prof.

Dhaval Raval from AITS, Rajkot for conducting the workshop along

with hands on practice based on “Simulation with Proteus and

Interfacing with Arduino”. We highly appreciate their efforts for

providing very informative presentation and explanation. We are

very much grateful to Dr. H. M. Nimbark, Principal, GMIT &

Professor Anish Vora, H.O.D., Electrical for allowing and guiding

for the proper execution of the workshop. We are also very much

thankful to the management of GMIT for allowing and providing

required infrastructure.

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Participants and Lecturer Profiles

Participants Profile:

Students of 6th semester in Electrical Engineering now

have entered in the period of their engineering studies in

which they will gain knowledge of subjects like Power

Electronics & Control of Electrical Drives. In these subjects,

the students will come a step closer to real life applications

of above mentioned subjects. To do so, the students will have

to develop skills in simulation and interfacing. Proteus is a

simulation environment suitable for simulating various

power electronics circuits & using Arduino is useful for

interfacing.

Lecturer Profiles:

Professor Nitin Adroja & Professor Dhaval Raval are

currently employed at Atmiya Institute of Technology &

Science, Rajkot in Electrical engineering department. Nitin

sir has experience of 7 years in the field of engineering

education and he has been with AITS, Rajkot since July

2010. Dhaval sir is also having quite an experience in the

field of engineering education. In the one-day workshop

organised at GMIT, Bhavnagar, Nitin sir had the

responsibility of Proteus explanation and Dhaval sir was

supposed to enlighten the students regarding Arduino

interfacing.

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Objective

The prime objective of this workshop was to enhance

simulation skills of students using one of the most popular

simulation software such as Proteus. The workshop also had

intentions to develop interfacing of Arduino. Class of 6th semester

Electrical can be seen in lab in following photograph.

Class of 6th Electrical at location of workshop

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Key points of the workshop Session 1 by Nitin Adroja Sir

The workshop was divided into two sessions. The first session

started with installation of Proteus. Once installation was over,

Nitin sir explained working of some basic electrical circuits in

simulation like circuits explaining Ohm’s law, KCL (Kirchhoff’s

Current Law) & KVL (Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law). After that, he

explained some circuits that were studied by the students during

their study of Circuit & Network subject. Students also performed

the same in their PCs. IC 555 circuits & Shift registers were also

simulated, first by Nitin sir and later by students. IC 555 is an

integral part of Analog Electronics & Shift registers are very

important in Digital electronics. Once these basic circuits were

simulated and explained, a circuit for pump control & another

circuit for azimuthal angle control of solar panel were simulated

and elaborated. One can see the session going on in following

photograph.

Professor Nitin with students during session 1

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Session 2 by Dhaval Raval sir

Second session was conducted by Professor Dhaval. He started

the session by introducing Arduino and its capabilities as an

device to the students. He then went on to explain limitations and

software requirements for the same. Loading of Arduino was

elaborated to the students and programming for the same was also

explained. Professor Dhaval can be seen explaining to the students

in following photograph.

Professor Dhaval with students during session 2

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Glimpses of the Workshop

WORKSHOP REMEMBRANCES

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Major Outcomes

The main objective of this workshop was to encourage

students in working with various simulation environments to solve

their textbook and project based problems & incorporate an

ambition to use compatible hardware for the physical verification

of their ideas. The students learned following things by attending

this workshop.

1. Learning Proteus as a simulation environment and its

applicability.

2. Learning to simulate both basic and advanced circuits in

Proteus.

3. Learning to interface Arduino.

4. Learning about capabilities and limitations of Arduino as

an interfacing device.