# Proteus and Realdash **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [February 5, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.realdash.net/t/proteus-and-realdash/7500 "2025-02-05T10:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Valter](https://forum.realdash.net/user_avatar/forum.realdash.net/valter/32/1879_2.png) [@Valter](https://forum.realdash.net/u/Valter)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.realdash.net/t/proteus-and-realdash/7500/1 "2025-02-05T10:50:40Z")
good morning everybody There is a possibility to link the Proteus simulator to the functions in RealDash as if it were an Arduino board on the bench but using Proteus for this, like when pressing a button inside Proteus, the functions are sent from Proteus to RealDash via USB cable since Proteus can create virtual COM ports ---
**Author:** ![realdashdev](https://forum.realdash.net/user_avatar/forum.realdash.net/realdashdev/32/6_2.png) [@realdashdev](https://forum.realdash.net/u/realdashdev)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.realdash.net/t/proteus-and-realdash/7500/2 "2025-02-05T11:10:01Z")
I’m not familiar of what ‘Proteus’ is, but if it is a device that is capable of sending/receiving data, you can use our ‘RealDash CAN’ protocol to communicate with virtually any device. See RealDash CAN protocol specs here: [RealDash-extras/RealDash-CAN/realdash-can-protocol.md at master · janimm/RealDash-extras](https://github.com/janimm/RealDash-extras/blob/master/RealDash-CAN/realdash-can-protocol.md) ---
**Author:** ![Valter](https://forum.realdash.net/user_avatar/forum.realdash.net/valter/32/1879_2.png) [@Valter](https://forum.realdash.net/u/Valter)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.realdash.net/t/proteus-and-realdash/7500/3 "2025-02-05T11:42:14Z")
proteus electronic circuit simulator and PCB board creator ![proteus](https://forum.realdash.net/uploads/default/original/2X/8/89da4a9da73ff2ab7bc3972b7ecab6c640b8e2c2.png)