HOW TO USE BUS IN PROTEUS

You're already familiar with Proteus and its usage. It's really interesting to simulate your circuit before hardware implementation because it's just a matter of few clicks here and there before you can see the output. Sometimes there are too many connections in your circuit which kind of looks ugly. This article is about using BUS WIRE in Proteus which saves you some space in the design area and the circuit also looks presentable rather than a mess of connections.

USING BUS IN PROTEUS

Bus is simply a common highway for all the connections. From our Proteus Point of View, consider the following connection diagram ( which is actually Seven Segment Interface ) 

SEVEN SEGMENT CONNECTION DIAGRAM

Although it's not much of a mess but let's assume that we don't like it this way and want to make it more decent. How about this one?

SEVEN SEGMENT CONNECTION USING BUS

The second one looks cool and decent. It also gives you more space for placing additional components. Here is how you can place a BUS WIRE in Proteus. I will explain using a simple example.

• Consider the following components which we want to connect through BUS

PLACING COMPONENTS

• From the left menu, click this icon to select BUS

SELECTING BUS

• Place the BUS according to requirements

PLACING BUS

• Connect all the related components to the bus

CONNECTING COMPONENTS

• Next you need to label every wire for identification. Right-Click the wire and select Place Wire Label 

SELECTING LABEL OPTION

• Give a name (label) to this wire which can be anything.

GIVING LABEL

• The wire is now labelled as shown

LABEL SUCCESS

• To connect this LED with the first button, repeat the same process for the wire connected to that button. Label must be the same. 

CONNECTION SUCCESS

• The LED (D1) is now connected to the first button. Similarly you can connect LED (D2) with the second button as shown.

CONNECTING SECOND LED

The LEDs are now connected to the corresponding buttons and you can use them accordingly. We can summarize the above procedure in the following steps

• Place a BUS
• Connect all components
• Give a unique label to each wire (which must be same at both ends of the connection) 

It is important to note that a connection won't work if you use different labels. Furthermore, you can also hide the labels for more beautification. Just right-click the wire and select Hide All Wire Labels. Thus we can have

HIDING LABELS

I hope this article helps you in simplifying your Proteus Design file. Don't forget to leave your feedback and share this post if you liked it.