How to Download and Install Proteus Software on Windows?

Last Updated : 14 Feb, 2023

Proteus is Software used to draw and design and integrate electronic circuits. After designing circuits by taking various parts like Switch, Microcontrollers, LED it also provides to simulate and test designed circuit. After testing in real-time we can go to make this circuit practically in our physical world. If we talk about the history of this Proteus software the first version of Proteus (PC-B) was made by John Jamesonthenthe chairman of Labcenter Electronics in 1988. It has many libraries and features to design and simulate modern electronic gadgets.

System Requirements

Proteus Software (Proteus 8.13)
Operating System (Windows 7/8/10)
RAM – 3GB
Installation Wizard (Online/Offline)

Steps to Install Proteus Software in Windows 10

Step 1: First we need to Download Proteus. Here we are going to install Proteus 8.13. Let’s For Downloading Click on Download. It will show the following interface now click on Download.

Step 2: In the case of google drive it may show the following interface just click on Download anyway.

Step 3: It will start to download the zip file. Based on your internet speed it will take some time. Wait until the download process is completed.

Step 4: When downloading is completed and then going to the download folder it will show the zip file.

Step 5: Now on right-click the file and extract this using whatever software you have to extract the zip file and select the destination. Here, browse the location where you want to save.

Step 6: Extracted folder will look like this.

Step 7: Now open Proteus 8.13 SP0 Pro Folder and click on the .exe file. It will ask to run. Click on Run.

Step 8: In case select you don’t have an installation wizard then first it will ask the Click an install wizard. Click next and mark check on Agree. Then it will install the wizard, it is an optional process, if you already have this wizard then it will go to the next step directly.

Step 9: Next it will show the following interface and we need to select the location where we want to install this software. Click on Next.

Step 10: Now it will show the following interface. Simply click on Next.

Step 11: Now it will start to install. It will take some time.

Step 12: After Completion of Installation it will show the following interface. Simply Click on Finish. Our Proteus 8.13 is installed in our Windows 10.

Step 13: In the desktop icon of this software will show like this. For checking whether it is installed perfectly or not, click on Proteus Professional Icon.

Step 14: It is opening correctly and now we can start to work with this Proteus.

This was the Installation process of Proteus 8.13 in Windows 10.

Advantages of Proteus

It can be used to simulate and test physical devices.
It provides an interface to make circuits in Two -D and how we want to make it also provides this functionality.
It takes very less time to test any specific type of circuit compared to physical wire and devices.
We can test many tools, and circuits that are very expensive in the physical world.
There is no possibility of damaging any physical thing if the circuit is not designed perfectly.