Key Features
ProPilot is your AI-powered co-designer for the Proteus Design Suite, offering fast, intelligent help across schematic design, simulation, and embedded development. With full access to your design context, ProPilot delivers practical answers, code suggestions, and fault analysis that help you work smarter and faster at every stage.
- Analyse the schematic in real time to assist with design decisions.
- Understand Proteus tools with context-sensitive help and guidance.
- Multilingual support. ProPilot will chat to you in your own language.
- Generate code based on connected components and MCU wiring.
- Support SPI, I2C, PWM and peripheral setup with targeted coding help.
- Insert references, change values, and navigate with agentic commands.
- Work with multiple LLMs including GPT, Claude, and DeepSeek.
EDAi Co-design
ProPilot is an AI-powered design assistant built directly into the Proteus Design Suite, giving you intelligent, context-aware support throughout the electronics design process. With access to your schematic, embedded code, and simulation data, it operates as a true part of your workflow — not just a chatbot on the side. You’re in control of the engine behind it, with support for multiple leading LLMs including GPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and even self-hosted options.
From early design guidance and component advice to firmware assistance and debugging support, ProPilot helps you move faster, reduce errors, and solve problems more efficiently. It’s like having an experienced engineer on call — one who understands your project and responds instantly.
Design Assistant
ProPilot helps you make smarter design decisions directly from your schematic. With real-time access to your circuit, it can explain the roles of components, assist with part selection, and walk you through practical tasks like filter tuning, voltage level shifting, or decoupling strategy. Whether you're designing a Butterworth filter for audio, managing noise on an analog sensor input, or choosing the right MOSFET for a power switch, ProPilot provides actionable, circuit-aware advice tailored to your needs.
By combining engineering knowledge with full schematic visibility, ProPilot acts as an intelligent advisor embedded in your workflow. It reduces trial and error, improves design quality, and gives you the confidence to move faster — all without leaving the Proteus environment.
Coding Assistant
ProPilot bridges the gap between your circuit and your firmware. With direct access to the schematic, it knows exactly which peripherals are connected to your microcontroller — including which pins are used — and can generate context-aware code snippets to help you get started faster. Whether you're setting up PWM for motor control, writing a PID loop for temperature regulation, or interfacing with an I2C sensor or TFT display, ProPilot tailors its suggestions to your specific design.
Unlike generic coding tools, ProPilot understands your hardware. It works alongside the VSM Studio IDE to insert or adapt code fragments, accelerate peripheral configuration, and help you debug embedded behaviour. The result is reduced setup time, fewer integration errors, and faster path to a working prototype — without ever needing to search through datasheets or library examples.
Debugging Assistant
When things don’t work as expected, ProPilot helps you troubleshoot your schematic with the insight of a second engineer at your side. It can analyse your circuit in context to suggest likely causes of common issues — from floating inputs and missing pull-up resistors, to incorrect biasing or misconfigured power paths. Whether you're struggling with an unresponsive sensor, erratic analog signals, or unexpected logic behaviour, ProPilot offers circuit-aware advice and practical next steps to isolate and resolve the problem quickly.
For firmware issues, ProPilot complements your debugging process by helping you interpret how software might be interacting with the hardware. It can suggest where to check for incorrect initialisation, timing mismatches, or missed interrupts, all based on its understanding of your schematic and codebase. It won’t replace your tools — but it can significantly narrow the search.
Help Assistant
ProPilot Help Assistant gives you intelligent access to the full Proteus Help system, with answers tailored to your design. It doesn’t just look up keywords, it understands your schematic, PCB layout, project notes and more to provide step-by-step guidance in context.
For example, ask how to set up differential pair routing and ProPilot will walk you through the exact steps for your project, including where to define the pair, how to apply rules and how to route them correctly.
Because it draws from multiple help files and knows what modules are involved, it can explain multi-stage workflows clearly. Results are always returned in your language of choice, with the AI model automatically translating answers drawn from English help files, making expert guidance more accessible than ever.
Engineer Benefits
The following table summarises how ProPilot can work with you to boost productivity and improve quality.